What is the best sleeping position for a caesarean section?

Nowadays, many women choose caesarean section after pregnancy. The main reason is that natural childbirth is very painful, and the other part is that they cannot give birth normally due to physical reasons. Most hospitals have regulations for caesarean sections. The surgery can only be performed after the surgical standards are met. Otherwise, natural delivery is the only option. After a caesarean section, you must pay attention to bed rest. During the rest period, you must pay attention to your posture to prevent abnormalities in the wound and other parts of the body caused by the wrong posture. So what is the best sleeping position for a caesarean section?

In fact, there is no need to pay attention to any sleeping position after a caesarean section, as long as the wound does not hurt. In addition, you should turn your body left and right with the help of your family within six hours after delivery, and walk and urinate as soon as possible to promote faster healing of the wound. You must take a bath two weeks later and disinfect the wound.

After the cesarean section, the mothers finally feel relieved. Facing the newborn baby, maternal love arises spontaneously, and the mothers climb another step in their life - becoming a mother.

Postpartum day

On the day of cesarean section, the mother must make sure to get a good rest after returning to the ward, because it is a major surgical experience after all. At this time, there will be irritation from the urinary catheter, discomfort from the oxygen tube, entanglement from the ECG monitor cuff, and a pain pump on the back. After the birth of a child, the mother has great attraction. The mother will constantly pay attention to the child. Mothers are reminded that at this time, except for feeding the child when needed, they must close their eyes and rest at other times to restore their strength as soon as possible. After delivery, you should turn over more often to promote early gas discharge, and eat as soon as possible to replenish the physical energy loss caused by the surgery.

Day 2 after delivery

After the catheter is removed on the second day after delivery, you should move around as soon as possible. You can sit up first, then move around on the bed, and then get up and move around. Never lie in bed motionless, as this will affect blood circulation in the lower limbs and cause deep phlebitis in the lower limbs. When the analgesic pump is removed, the wound will feel painful, and there will be zeg contraction pain when the baby sucks on the RF. These pains are very painful for mothers who have not experienced the labor process of cesarean section. They must grit their teeth and get through it. The pain of uterine contractions when the baby is breastfeeding is just like the mild dysmenorrhea during normal menstruation and is tolerable. Only such contractions can cause the zg to shrink from a spherical organ as big as a ball to its pre-pregnancy size. There will be puerperal sweat after delivery. This is the water stored in the body during pregnancy which is discharged from the body in the form of puerperal sweat after delivery. Don't think that it is sweat caused by physical weakness. Change clothes every day to ensure your body is clean. The nurse will help the mother to clean the vulva and keep it clean. Fluid infusion is also required in the first two days after delivery to replenish the loss during the operation and the energy deficiency caused by not being able to eat as soon as possible after the operation; the doctor will also give the mother antibiotics to prevent infection.

Day 3 after delivery

On the third day, the mother has basically adapted to the pain of contractions. At this time, the doctor will change the dressing on the wound, and there may be some minor discomfort. The doctor will check whether the wound is bleeding, red, swollen or inflamed, and understand the wound healing status. The most important thing is that milk starts to swell at this time (usually 24 to 48 hours after delivery), and the mother needs to grit her teeth and get through this stage. RF massage can be used to unclog the milk ducts to ensure that the baby has enough breast milk.

Generally, you can wash your hair, wipe your body, and blow-dry your hair with hot air in a warm room on the third day after delivery. You can take a bath in a warm bathroom after a week, but be careful to protect the wound. Brush your teeth every day after giving birth to protect your teeth.

Wound recovery

When it comes to cesarean section wounds, hospitals now generally use a transverse incision in the lower abdomen, and use absorbable sutures for buried sutures, or use skin zippers, skin gel bonding and other methods to minimize the damage and scars to the mother's abdominal skin. Abdominal wounds usually heal in 7 days, and the absorbable sutures in the skin are completely invisible after 90 days. Since the transverse incision in the lower abdomen cuts off the cutaneous nerves in the lower abdomen, the skin around the incision will feel numb and insensitive for several years. This is because the recovery of the nerves is very slow. The incision in the lower abdomen will be a chronic inflammatory process within one and a half years after the operation, appearing as a pink line raised on the skin. After about one and a half years, it will turn into a white flat scar. Some doctors are very skilled and if the mother's skin is not prone to scarring, the incision will be almost invisible; but if the mother has a prone to scarring, a thick edge will appear. Postpartum rehabilitation technology is now very advanced. Mothers with scar-prone constitutions can do skin care as early as possible to eliminate scars.

What sleeping position is good after a cesarean section? After a cesarean section, the patient should rest in bed first. After the anesthetic wears off, they can lift their legs and move around appropriately, and then turn over. When the patient feels that their body has recovered, they can remove the catheter and get out of bed to move around. There is no requirement for the sleeping position, as long as they feel comfortable sleeping. However, you should be careful not to get out of bed too early, as this may cause the wound to rupture, which may lead to sequelae if the wound is allowed to heal.