What's New
Our office is taking on a new look. We are excited to offer a more welcoming and comfortable setting for our patients. Our exam suites have been redecorated and have taken on a spa like feel. We hope that our patients can be more relaxed and feel at home. Check out the pictures of our newly decorated suites.
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1505 Eastland Drive, Suite 500,Bloomington, IL 61701
Phone: (309) 662-2273
Fax: (309) 662-2014
Scheduled Cesarean Section
If you know that you are having a C–section, it is usually scheduled at your 36–week appointment. Our nurse will schedule your surgery for you with consideration to your schedule, the hospital schedule and your physician or midwives schedule. We will educate you on the preoperative teaching prior to your surgery.
When you come to the hospital, enter through admitting. Upon arrival to Labor and Delivery, you will sign consent forms, be asked multiple questions from the labor nurse in regards to your health history and obstetric history, be shaved in preparation (unless you have done this at home) and have your IV started. The anesthesiologist and provider will be available to answer any last-minute questions you have about the procedure. Most women receive spinal anesthesia and are awake during the birth of their baby. One person is allowed in the operating room during the cesarean section – no exceptions. Be sure to bring a camera as pictures can be taken when the staff gives the "okay".
The surgery itself takes about 40 minutes after which you will be moved to the recovery room located in labor and delivery for recovery. Surgical delivery is no reason to delay breastfeeding and we encourage you to start as soon as possible after getting the baby back from the nursery. Your stay after cesarean section is 2–3 days, during which time you will be educated about pain management, constipation avoidance, nutrition, hydration, breastfeeding efforts, and walking, walking, walking!
We'll see you in the office about one week after discharge from the hospital. Until that time:
- Do not drive!
- Stay home except for the visit to your baby's doctor.
- Avoid lifting anything heavier than your baby (and that's not the baby in the car seat!).
- Do not douche, use tampons, or have intercourse (don't put anything in the vagina)
- Alternate your prescribed narcotics with Ibuprofen (Motrin). This provides an anti-inflammatory to enhance the narcotic
- Advance your activity as tolerated—You are not confined to bed.
- Drainage or a small amount of bleeding from the incision is normal. Just keep the incisional area clean and dry.
- Call us if you experience a temperature of 100.4°F or higher, foul discharge from your incision or vagina, or if you are soaking two pads/hour with blood (Large blood clots are normal.).