I had a Caeserean. It wasn't that bad for me, in all honesty. From Monday to Wednesday they allowed us morphine, in carefully regulated doses, but they let me home on the Wednesday (C-Section was very late Sunday night) and although I had to be careful, I didn't have pain as such.
Had to be careful yawning, sneezing, laughing and moving suddenly as that could pull and in fact once I did turn over in bed too suddenly, causing pain enough to double up and later on I passed a huge clot, but I rang the hospital and they said that if it was just the one clot and it had stopped, with no further pain, that I should just keep an eye on it and that if it happened again, to go straight in.
Other than that, everything was fine. Erin had to go to the SCBU after being born (as it was over 24 hours since my waters broke and she was born) for antibiotics, but she was back beside me for 3am, when she woke me for a feed. That first time I did ring for the nurses to pick her up for me, but after breastfeeding her, I thought I would have a go myself, just to see and I didn't have any problems, so thereafter if she cried to be fed, I picked her up and put her back myself.
The morphine they give you blanks out the pain. I did try to go without it on the Wednesday morning, but it felt awful. Not pain as such, but a deep dragging queasy sensation, that made moving difficult, so I did go and ask for it. However, Thursday morning I was obviously at home, so just had the tablets they gave me and they were enough. No pain, except if I moved too fast or as above.
Quite easily breastfed my daughter without any issues either - my milk came through as normal and she fed without any issues. I held her in the normal position and was perfectly ok.
