Originally Posted by IpsieDixie

Hi,

I was wondering, how soon after your lap did the nurses get you up and let you walk around? Was it as soon as you woke up or did you have to use a bedpan for the first day?

Also, my surgeon says he usually keeps his lap patients in the hospital for three nights. Is this typical? It seems kind of long. Not that I'm second-guessing him or anything and I will do exactly what he says. It's just that they let me go home four days after my c-section, and a lap r-en-y is so much less invasive than a c-section.

IpsieDxie

Lap r-en-y May 1, 2006
Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts
Three cheers for Dr. Pablo Gazmuri!