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REALITY CHECK FOR MOMS -- WHO ARE GETTING BA
You need help for the first 10 days (perhaps more depending on healing)
I ran away to a hotel for 3 days and thought I won the "recuperation lottery" or something. However, 3 days is nothing. Once I returned back to the house, it was HELL.
Being alone with 1 and 3 year old is NOT A GREAT IDEA. You are really sore and tight and not freely mobile, and CANNOT lift. You are very vulnerable when you can't use your arms. I was walking down the street with the two kids, and some upset homeless man was yelling in our faces, and I felt very vulnerable and weak. I wouldn't have been able to defend myself if I needed to.
I had some part-time help, PART TIME IS NOT ENOUGH. Your energy level is nowhere close to normal. It's similar to having a very bad flu and body aches and chills .......and then deluding yourself into believing you can do a 13 HOUR SHIFT with two young children. (I have deluded myself into that ,too . HA)
For the first week, please, PLEASE get full time help. I am post op 11 days now, and part time help feels appropriate for me.
When the doctor's restrictions are finished at week 3, I can reduce help and lift my 28 pound baby again. A LOT of people downplayed the BA with babies, young children situation, including my doctor. "Oh, its nothing,. You can return to work in just 3 days!!" NOT THIS KIND OF WORK, NOT 13 HOURS STRAIGHT. ;)
I ran away to a hotel for 3 days and thought I won the "recuperation lottery" or something. However, 3 days is nothing. Once I returned back to the house, it was HELL.
Being alone with 1 and 3 year old is NOT A GREAT IDEA. You are really sore and tight and not freely mobile, and CANNOT lift. You are very vulnerable when you can't use your arms. I was walking down the street with the two kids, and some upset homeless man was yelling in our faces, and I felt very vulnerable and weak. I wouldn't have been able to defend myself if I needed to.
I had some part-time help, PART TIME IS NOT ENOUGH. Your energy level is nowhere close to normal. It's similar to having a very bad flu and body aches and chills .......and then deluding yourself into believing you can do a 13 HOUR SHIFT with two young children. (I have deluded myself into that ,too . HA)
For the first week, please, PLEASE get full time help. I am post op 11 days now, and part time help feels appropriate for me.
When the doctor's restrictions are finished at week 3, I can reduce help and lift my 28 pound baby again. A LOT of people downplayed the BA with babies, young children situation, including my doctor. "Oh, its nothing,. You can return to work in just 3 days!!" NOT THIS KIND OF WORK, NOT 13 HOURS STRAIGHT. ;)
Post op - day 3
I look bigger than Day 1, because the pectoral muscles are slightly relaxing, allowing the implant to drop . i am bloated, swolllen mostly at tummy. I am doing tons of pressure point massage at the neck and shoulders, neck stretching, foam rolling the lower body. Just trying to release tension. Surgery is no longer painful BUT IT LEAVES YOU TIGHT! I still cannot lift, and that is hard with children, so I have help from 7 am - 7 pm with the kids. You cannot be alone with young children and a baby the first week. Note to moms :)
Post OP - Day 2
Well, I feel way better, No more nausea. Only on Tylenol. Definitely sore and cannot use arms well, but feeling fine. Just low energy. Don't expect too much from yourself for the first couple days. My 255cc are a little "too natural" looking. Ha ha. But still adjusting.