Tips for coping with Toddler after C sect

Hi,

DS was born via C section and it may happen again. Any tips for coping with a toddler during recovery?

I am finding it hard already (physically - sore back etc...) so goodness knows what it will be like afterwards!!

Thanks

Great topic, thanks for asking and thanks Sheza for bumping your old thread. Hopefully I won't need the tips but there are some great ones there if I do

Those are great tips in that link.   If you can get your toddler to sit on a little chair at a low table then you can avoid the highchair problem. I had to bath my daughter once when I was home alone (she vomitted) so I got the step stools that we use for her in the bathroom and put one on the floor so she could step up into the bath. I brought lots of bribes (bubbles, little books, little toys) wrapped them (wrote on the outside what it was) and then used those for toxic times. I still have a few left!

We gave my daughter a 'big sister tiara' that she wore while discharging her big sister responsibilities (like sitting quietly on the couch, bringing over the change mat).

We had some DVDs which were useful while breastfeeding (but this may be for older kids).

I made sure that there were some prepared snacks available all the time so it was easy for me to grab some.

I turned the dining table into a change table for a couple of weeks as it was the right height for me to change my daughter on, and too high for my other daughter to get stuff off.

I made a book that we read to my daughter a lot of times explaining what it was like when she was a baby, so that she would understand why Mummy was busy. We read it a lot.

it's hard !:) Ethan was 2 years 4 days so at least could do some things.. but he knew because for last few months he couldn't climb on me or be lifted up anyway.. be harder if they are younger than him..i found the pregnancy super hard though as he was 16 months in the beginning..

that thread has great tips.. i also found spending time with ethan one on one helped as he was less needy and wanting to jump and be carried all the time.. both times i had labour first so think recovery took a bit longer (and tubes tied and scar tissue taken away) but I had help too...support is also a massive thing to help:) and we had a few sets of things he could climb and ways for him to climb up places safely.. the cot i found the hardest though... esp cause hubby had knee operation at the same time lol..