Elective - Afternoon slot

I had a c section 2 months ago and I was the last slot at 4.30 x

We were all asked to come in for 7am. First one went in at 9am. I was supposed to be 2nd but there were no beds so my baby was delivered at 3pm and one woman went after me around 4/5pm and they pushed the rest back to the next day. I still had visitors though around 7pm. See how you feel afterwards. I didn't think I would want visitors but it was nice for the family to come see the baby ☺️

if it helps, i had a morning slot and went at 11:30, out by 12:30, in recovery for 2/3 hr and then was quite out of it and didn’t want any visitors until about 7/8pm

although have you checked your hospitals policy? as mine is only allowing 1 visitor per day + birth partner and you can’t swap them

i definitely wouldn’t have had visitors but it was my baby’s father so i had to allow him in, he wasn’t my birth partner

@Libby yes I spoke with them today at pre-op the slots are 2-4 then 6-8 and you can have 2 people plus partner x

Check your hospital policy. I was only allowed 1 visitor plus my birthing partner. No one else was able to visit. I had my section at 230pm, and normally they don’t let anyone visit until you are out of the recovery ward which is 2-3 hours, depending on how you are.

I was afternoon baby was born at 2.23pm. My mum came straight to visit when I got onto the ward. And then my dad came to visit the next morning before we were discharged so that we could just have a few days at home together with no visitors x

We all had to come in early but I ended up being the last as other women were higher risk and one was an emergency. Had the c-section at 1:05 and baby was born 1:15. We weren’t allowed visitors until I’d been in recovery for 2 hours, then had another 2 hours of observations. If I’m honest, I chose not to have visitors as I was in pain, bed bound and still had a catheter in until the next morning - but I imagine if you’re up to it you’re fine for visitors once you’re back out of recovery :)

If you’re having it in the afternoon then I wouldn’t be surprised if you are still in 7-8pm the following day.. I had one 9 weeks ago at 1pm and even after nagging etc by the time they do all the checks on baby (like 3 different people) get you your meds, discharge paperwork etc it was like 7pm - you’ll probably have time the following day for 2 lots of visitors x