I have a birth debrief this Thursday. I was wondering if anyone on here may have had one and if you had any tips? Was it helpful? I don't really know what to expect. Did they tell you what might happen in the event of future pregnancies?
I had a 62 hour very intense labour (continuous contractions for over half of it) with shoulder dystocia and bad tearing resulting in intermittent incontinence (both types).
I'm really worried that I'll go into the debrief and be told that as far as they're concerned, the labour went well (both me and baby are alive and the baby had no long term effects from the traumatic delivery) and they'll wonder what my problem is.
I'm desperately hoping they'll offer me a c-section for future deliveries (really worried about repeat shoulder dystocia and permanent faecal incontinence) but I know there's a policy against offering elective c-sections at the hospital my daughter was born at and most (if not all) of the other ones in London.
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Birth debrief - is it helpful?
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KBLondon · 06/03/2018 13:28
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