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I think the hospital did my c seduction too high

68 replies

Lardlizard · 12/03/2019 20:25

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OP posts:
Omzlas · 13/03/2019 00:15

What is it that bothers you, where the scar is? That you got an infection? That you have an overhang? (Which I believe is very common with CS) or that you'd now like a tummy tuck?

Personally the only thing that would bother me is safe delivery of my child

JohnnyHatesJazz · 13/03/2019 00:16

Plus it is highly unlikely you would get a 'tummy tuck' on the nhs any more. Even breast cancer patients are being refused breast reconstruction in some areas.

P.S My post CS overhang is huge, but I'm not entitled to have it fixed unless I pay privately.

7Pip · 13/03/2019 00:28

Mine is in the same location. I don't have an overhang though as I work hard at exercising. Nobody can tell I've had a baby until I tell them (that includes doctors/nurses.) There is scarring if you look closely enough.
I've a flat tummy. Age is giving me a bit of a paunch, but it's not the c-section.

A lot of women have flat tummies post c-section!

AssassinatedBeauty · 13/03/2019 00:28

I don't think that @Lardlizard is suggesting that a tummy tuck would be provided by the NHS?

It's not helpful to suggest that the only thing that is important about a birth is that the baby is safe. Clearly women can have a whole range of consequences from pregnancy and giving birth, ranging from mildly annoying to totally life altering and serious.

mathanxiety · 13/03/2019 00:29

Almost everyone I know who had a CS has a muffin top, even women who are otherwise stick thin and obsessively exercise.

My advice to you is to go to some sort of counseling to try to resolve your issue with the overhang.

SleepingStandingUp · 13/03/2019 00:34

SleepingStandingUp the OP is allowed to be concerned about her own body after delivery. firstly I was trying to ascertain if there was anything in the delivery that made her think it was wrong and secondly if the baby came out how he should have it wasn't in the wrong place.

Sashkin · 13/03/2019 00:40

It should be below your hip bones, and a few cm above your pubic bone. That may be above or below your pubic hair line depending on how high yours grows. Bear in mind that the final position will have changed when your belly shrank post-baby.

Mine’s above a good couple of cm above my pubic hair, and is definitely not too high (I’m a doctor, I know where it ought to be). Yours definitely doesn’t sound high.

StoppinBy · 13/03/2019 00:48

Mine is just below my hip bones and as I don't have much pubic hair the scar is above my hair.

StoppinBy · 13/03/2019 00:52

@7pip, I don't work hard at exercising and I don't have an overhang either. I also know thin women who have a 'c/section apron'.

I think you either get lucky or you don't in the way your body heals.

sagradafamiliar · 13/03/2019 00:54

That's nice for you pip Confused

mehimthem · 13/03/2019 01:05

sounds about where mine is too, my youngest is in his mid-20's so not a recent thing, lol
I guess its a standard spot to start the incision to get your baby out safely.

Even though I had an earlier CS with middle child, plus abdominal/exploratory surgery with its incision just above my CS scar I've never considered wearing a bikini or revealing that spot to someone (anyone :) ) who doesnt know me intimately to not mind.
Re the overhang - I think many women who have had a CS will realise in years to come that there is a "wee tummy pouch" lol

Gone4Good · 13/03/2019 01:25

My crooked emergency C section incision was from my belly button down almost to the crease. On top of it all I developed a dense thick red keloid scar even though I'm 100% Caucasian. I almost died from a drug resistant infection as well. But they got the baby out alive which was all that mattered to me.

brookshelley · 13/03/2019 01:30

The way to avoid the overhang is to wear a compression girdle for 4-6 weeks afterwards. Too late for you OP but for anyone else reading it. I had to have a CS first time for breech and negative comments like "everyone with a CS gets an overhang" contributed to my stress and anxiety about it. BTW I don't have one and have had two CS!

pinkboa · 13/03/2019 01:31

@Gone4Good its amazing what they don't tell you...your scar might have been caused from the stitching or lack of.

My first c section I had a keloid, but I chose to be stapled.... second section I chose stitching and my scar is flat... I'm mixed race.

My scar is now sitting in the top section of my public hair and I don't have an overhang.

Gone4Good · 13/03/2019 02:21

pinkboa

With my first C section (keloid) I had stitches. My first husband was black and of course our baby was bi-racial and I often wondered.. because I second baby, many years later, was with my second (white) husband and my incision healed normally and I had staples. The plot thickens - as did my first scar. lol

The keloid scar was massive, it wouldn't even bend when I bent over - it was vertical, and itched deep underneath it. I had injections into it to soften it up.

brookshelley · 13/03/2019 02:39

Keloid is caused by your skin not your baby's...having a half black child wouldn't cause one.

Bowerbird5 · 13/03/2019 03:04

Gone g4good you have almost described mine. I had a tight stitch that caused problems, an infection for four months and still at times get itching and redness forty years later. Baby and I were both very ill and he was in special care not expected to live. He is a strapping lad now although he was a skinny failure to thrive baby.
I elected to try for normal delivery with my others. It doesn’t sound too high but perhaps you need to talk it through with someone. My consultant with the last baby said my was a bloody mess and he would tidy it up if I needed another section. I have my gorgeous son which is the main thing. We nearly lost him due to negligence.

costacoffeecup · 13/03/2019 03:34

Sounds like it's lower than mine

HoppingPavlova · 13/03/2019 03:46

Doesn’t sound high, sounds standard.

OddCat · 13/03/2019 04:13

If doctors decide to make the incision based on where a woman's bikini line is, mine would be somewhere between my belly button and tits !

Kintan · 13/03/2019 08:25

Gone4Good I don't understand your post - how could the colour of your child's skin affect your healing/recovery?

OP I think it's almost inevitable (unless you are really lucky) that a CS causes overhang, as your muscles have been sliced through.

Oblomov19 · 13/03/2019 08:47

Sounds normal to me. I've had 2 and my scars are high. I thought that was normal? And I have overhang, but it doesn't bother me at all.

SleepingStandingUp · 13/03/2019 09:08

With my first C section (keloid) I had stitches... The keloid scar was massive, it wouldn't even bend when I bent over - it was vertical

second baby... healed normally and I had staples

I hate to ruin your "science" but the reason the first one healed less well was because if the type of c sec it was, bad luck, etc. Not because your baby made it heal bad by being duel heritage

VelvetPineapple · 13/03/2019 09:20

Sounds like a normal position for the scar tbh. Mine is pretty much on the bikini line and is higher at one side than the other. I don’t have an overhang above the scar but my belly isn’t flat because the skin stretched so much. I have an apron of stretched skin which I’d have had regardless of how my baby was delivered. I hate it Sad

excitedtobehere · 13/03/2019 09:26

I didn't have overhang after my first cs. The overhang after my second cs is dreadful. Afterwards, I was on the lower end of healthy bmi but my tummy looked horrendous. I was stretched much more during the second pregnancy, I have lots of excess skin. It would take surgery to put it right. My bikini days are well and truly over.

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