Hospital

I was in for a week before my little boy was removed(not even breech-sideways!!!!) and I asked friends if I could borrow books, I took my tweezers and gave myself a complete eyebrow overhaul, charity shops are fantastic for really cheap books. If any of your children have a gameboy-they prob have tetris-totally addictive-whatever age. If only you had a PC-you could surf on this website all day.

Maybe you could make meal plans for a few months ahead..you could write your christmas cards, you could write to our girls and boys in the gulf-I am sure that they would appreciate somebody taking the time to write to them. The agony aunt in the sun has addresses.

Hope this helps, if you are in the portsmouth area I have loads of Lesley Pearce books, jane green (and the money diet!!!)
If you are near, email and I will lend you them.

Hope all goes well, Shellxxxxx

If you enjoy reading try your local library. My library sells old paperback books for 30p and hard backs for 50p. Cheaper than any of the charity shops which are near me.

When I was in having my C section for my baby I was in almost heaven when I found out the tv systems they have in hospital has internet access, only to be down in the mouth when I found out there was a fault in the system so they weren't in use.

That was at the beginning of the year, so the systems may have been sorted out by now. The internet system seems to be part of the handset, you lift the flap at the back and a keyboard opens up.

Might be worth finding out.

I agree with the others, Christmas cards and present lists are a good time waster. Not sure where abouts the scar is to be but if it is below the belly button you might benefit from Mava Knickers, they are mesh knickers which are sold via the NCT, meant for C sections. They worked a treat for me, and the midwife said I had one of the best recovering scars going! Not the most attractive but stops your normal pants digging in, and actually very comfortable, and I delayed going back to my normal set for weeks because they were so comfy! Anyway, enough about my undies...

I didn't wash or bath the scar in anything other than water for the first few weeks and then progressed on non perfumed bath oil (Simple) and to rubbing in bio oil. Sadly I still have a saggy pouch, but then I am comforting myself that it is the war wound I should expect with a baby! But the scar is disappearing slowly.

Good luck with the op and hope the recovery goes well.

you could try getting one of the craft magazines that has a little free kit on the front - the cross stitch ones would be especially good - it's not hard to pick up, will absorb you for a few hours and you get something useful at the end of it

the magazines are usually about £3 which includes the kit, but you can get cheaper back copies of the magazines or just the small kits on ebay.

regarding going to the library - check with the hospital as lots have their own library trolleys that come round!

you could of course be like some of the people in the hospital i work in and decide to pass your time by dreaming esoteric and complicated demands to bombard the staff with just when they are in the middle of something else!! ::)