I had a c section for my baby in September and it was a fantastic experience. Mine was maternal choice because I had tokophobia.

Within six hours of the surgery, I was walking to the bathroom to have a shower. I could get in and out of bed and tend to baby just fine that night. We went home 36 hours after the surgery and I was climbing the stairs in my house and climbing into our bath-shower the same day.

A week after surgery, I was back visiting restaurants and walking a few miles with the baby in the pram. Three weeks after surgery, I had stopped taking painkillers at all and felt completely normal. I was attending baby classes (lots of getting up and down off the floor, lifting baby, holding baby) and going out solo on public transport with the baby by the time he was five weeks old.