Medicines and injections after a C-section: your own record
By the Circle Baby Care team · Checked against NHS guidance · Not a substitute for advice from your midwife, health visitor or GP
Quick answer: Yes, you can record your own medicines and prescribed injections in Circle. My medicines keeps your personal record private to your account, separate from your baby's shared log. It records what you enter; it does not calculate safe doses or tell you how to catch up after a missed dose.
When you are recovering from birth and caring for a newborn, remembering your own medicine times can become one more job. A simple record can help you explain what you took and when without relying on a tired memory.
What the NHS says about recovery medicines
The NHS caesarean recovery guide describes pain relief after surgery and treatment to reduce the risk of blood clots. Some mothers are prescribed blood-thinning injections. Which medicines you need, their doses and how long to take them depend on your own discharge instructions and clinical needs.
Follow your prescription, discharge plan and the leaflet supplied with each medicine. Do not copy another parent's dose or course length. If you are breastfeeding, check any medicine with your pharmacist or maternity team; the NHS guide to medicines while breastfeeding explains why this matters.
Keeping your own record in Circle
Open Looking after you in the app, then My medicines. It uses the same familiar pattern of a quick form and a dated history, but the record is yours — not your baby's.
- Enter the medicine name and the prescribed dose exactly as written on your label.
- Choose medicine, injection or vitamin / supplement.
- Record the actual date and time taken, with optional notes.
- Add a planned dose at a future time if that matches your prescribed schedule.
- Request an optional reminder for that planned time. Notifications must be enabled in Settings.
- When you actually take a planned dose, choose Record as taken and confirm the time. A reminder never marks a dose as taken automatically.
- Edit a mistake, delete an entry or download your own CSV history.
Your personal medicine entries are visible only to your account. Partners and caregivers do not get access through your baby's share code. They do not appear in baby feed counts, baby medicine history or baby reports. Switching between twins or siblings does not switch your personal record.
Reminders are not dosing advice
A planned time is one you entered, not one calculated by Circle. The app does not check interactions, calculate a daily maximum or decide when another adult dose is safe. A reminder can arrive late or fail if notifications are disabled or the device is offline. Keep your prescribed instructions available separately.
Notifications use generic wording so your medicine name is not shown on the lock screen. See our privacy notice for how personal health information is handled.
If a dose is missed or you cannot remember
Check the leaflet for that specific medicine and contact your pharmacist or maternity team if anything is unclear. Do not guess a catch-up dose or take extra simply because your record looks empty. Advice differs between medicines and can depend on how late the dose is. The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service guidance on missed doses explains why medicine-specific instructions matter.
When to get help
Contact your maternity team, GP or NHS 111 promptly for a painful, swollen leg, worsening wound pain, redness, discharge or fever. Call 999 for chest pain, sudden breathlessness or another emergency. Do not wait for a reminder or use a medicine log to decide whether symptoms are serious. The NHS DVT guidance describes clot warning signs and when to seek help.
Recovery belongs alongside baby care
My medicines is included in the same £3.99 monthly or £34.99 annual plan, with 10 days free and no extra charge for this feature. Your baby’s care can stay shared while your own health record stays personal.
Read our C-section recovery and partner guide, postnatal nutrition guide and full feature list for the rest of Circle’s support.
*This is general information, not medical advice. Follow your discharge instructions and ask your pharmacist, midwife, maternity team or GP about your own medicines.*