2.5 weeks PP w/ c section

Kasey

Need to vent, on Sunday I will be 3 weeks PP from my emergency c section, and my MIL’s comments to myself and my husband also what I seen she said about me to my SIL makes me feel like a total failure at being a mom. I had my son the 25th of October and as sad as I was our families couldn’t be there, I’m so glad now that my husband and I got our first couple days with our boy to ourself (first time parents) we went in the 24th and my contractions were 2 minutes apart and I was in a lot of pain, my MIL’s comments started this day. (She was awful thru out my pregnancy but it got under my skin starting this exact day). We called the grandparents (first grand baby on both sides) and told them we were pretty sure it was time, my mom and dad were ecstatic and even though they couldn’t come in headed to the hospital to have their “parking lot party” to welcome their grand baby, my MIL on the other hand told us we were jumping the gun and she didn’t see a point in going because we were just going to be sent home. After we were admitted we called to tell them it was in fact time to have our boy and she didn’t have much to say at that point...fast forward to the morning of the 25th, I was at a 10 and ready to go and we let everyone know our boy would be here soon and then started pushing, during this time my MIL decided to join my parents and other family members in the parking lot and we pushed for 2 straight hours and my son ended up getting stuck and both of our heart rates were decreasing, during this time the epidural also stopped working and I felt every push and was in a lot of pain so by the end of he 2 hours I was balling and my doctor said they were getting prepped for an emergency c section because it was no longer safe for me or baby to keep trying vaginally. We called both grandmas together to tell them and my mom started crying as I was crying and my wonderful MIL proceeded to try and tell me and my mom to get over ourselves, again I was crying because I was in PAIN, my mom because anything could happen during a c section, it isn’t just a walk in the park. My mil tried to tell us she did it no problem (my husband is a triplet and my mil obviously had a c section to get them out) and that I’ll be fine and to pretty much suck it up. (My mom also had 2 c sections with both of my brothers but again, anything could happen) after my mil tried telling me to suck it up I told them we had to go. We went in and had surgery and I ended up losing a lot of blood but baby was okay. We stayed 2 days in the hospital to try and get my blood count above a 7 so we could go home. On the last day we finally got it to a 7.1 and we got to come home. Everything was great the first couple days and then on day 3 my incision came open when I passed out walking to the bathroom and fell from my blood count still being so low, had to go to my doctor so he could look at it and make sure it was just the incision itself and nothing internal and it wasn’t thank god and he closed my incision back up and told me to stay off my feet as much as possible, the very next day my MIL showed up unannounced and grabbed my SLEEPING baby out of his bassinet and said I’m going to take him to the living room so you can do laundry and clean. LAUNDRY AND CLEAN! I incision has just came open THE DAY BEFORE and she wants me to get up and do laundry and clean! (I am a VERY clean person, laundry did need to be done but other then that everything was clean and there was no way I could life the laundry basket i was seriously so weak!) my husband was actually going to do laundry that night but I just let it go and went in the living room with them, while I was walking she said why are you all bent over it’s been about 5 days you should be feeling better by now, i just let that go because she KNEW my incision had came back open. I have gone to 2 post partum appointments and my blood count is still low and the iron pills are helping but very slowly and I still feel very weak and I’m still hurting. My mil texted my SIL saying I was milking it and I just want my husband’s sympathy and she said a c section and was perfectly fine after a week, (SHE HAD TRIPLETS THAT STAYED IN THE NICU FOR 4 WEEKS!!! SHE CAME HOME WITH NO BABIES AND GOT TO REST AND HER BODY GOT TO HEAL!!) I am legitimately in so much pain still and still weak and these are the comments she makes. She even tried making a comment to my husband. I cannot deal with her.