I have diagnosed anxiety / OCD that has just been hideous at times during my pregnancy. Honestly, I'm angry about how my mental health has been handled. The midwife who took my booking didn't ask me the question that would have led to me being referred to a consultant (have I ever been under the care of a psychiatrist. I have, but she didn't ask and marked it down as a 'no'). I did explain to her about my anxiety but she was pretty dismissive in a nice way, if that makes sense. I feel it wasn't her call to make how bad my mental health is/ could be, and she's effectively barred me from a lot of help that would have saved my sanity the first 20 something weeks when my anxiety was crazy high.
Anyway... rant over.
I'm 40 weeks today and I'm feeling such despair on and off about what's coming. Not only about labour which I am terrified of, but about being capable of caring for a newborn when I can barely care for my husband and me, and recovery if things go badly. I'm not suicidal, but I have caught myself thinking 'this would all be so much easier if I could just, you know, be dead, then I wouldn't have to go through all this'. I'm pretty sure that's an anxiety response to my various fears, though, rather than something to be horribly concerned about, as I don't feel it right now at all.
I just read on another thread in here that anxiety is something that can warrant an ELCS. Obviously it's too late for me to be going through that process now, though maybe I would have been told that if I'd had consultant care.
So, can I request a CS during labour if I can't cope? My fear is that I'll start panicking and won't be able to stop. I've already been told they don't do anti anxiety drugs in labour, so no safety net there.
I have a doula and a supportive husband, and I don't want a CS if I don't get incredibly anxious, I just want the option to be there, if you see what I mean?
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Can I request a CS whilst in labour?
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Julietee · 23/02/2014 20:52
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