Stitches out?

**luckymama** · 10-09-2007 10:23

Just wondering when i am meant to get my c/s stitches out, as you can prob tell by some of my threads, the hospital didn't tell me anything at all really.
Thanks

**Chickadee** · 10-09-2007 10:31

Mine came out in the first week while I was still in hospital. I think on day 4 or 5?

**SorenLorensen** · 10-09-2007 10:33

i got an early discharge so mine were done at home by a nurse that came to the house...around day 5 i think.

oh but i had staples, so not sure if that is different

**SilverStarfish** · 10-09-2007 11:54

Mine were dissolvable. By the time I took the special dressing off a week later (similar to thick sticky tape) they were all gone.

**biscotti** · 10-09-2007 11:57

I've not had a c-sect but my best friend has had 4 c-sects and her stitches all disolved

**mom2jake** · 10-09-2007 11:58

Mine were dissolvable too...

Although the middie that discharged me didn't trim the end, so I had an inch and a half thread sticking out the side, which was still there 2 weeks on

I had to get Df to trim it for me