Don't read this pre section!
Prior to my elective section I had read lots of encouraging posts, hoped it would be a calm and positive experience following my previous emcs. I understand that all surgery carries risks, nothing is perfect etc, but I found the elcs quite traumatic.
It took five attempts for the anaesthetist to locate the spinal, this felt like forever and I wanted to run out of theatre! In the end an alternative anaesthetist located it as the first one gave up (I've had spinals before so he must have been having a bad day).
Within a short time I started to black out due to my pulse/blood pressure dropping due to spinal. I started panicking as to whether baby was ok. They administered some drugs to bring me back, but my hands were numb as spinal had been located too high apparently.
Then I was woozy and on oxygen, anaesthetist said this was a side effect, if I fell asleep they'd wake me for birth.
Thankfully dd was delivered safely, but the elcs was pretty frightening from my pov and I'm still pretty shaken by it a couple of weeks later.
Has anyone else had a difficult elcs? Maybe I was a bit optimistic to think it was going to be a lovely calm experience.
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Upset by elective section
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cottonTale · 12/08/2015 15:26
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