to hope my baby girl stays breech so I can have a planned C-section and skip the pesky labour and pushing business?

[Cressida1979]

I am 31 weeks so loads of time for her to turn but I am getting really into the idea of a planned CS. I have done labour and natural birth twice (once to get my DD1 and once with a less happy outcome last year which did not result in a baby being brought home) so it's not like I'm too posh to push! I know quite a few mums who have had planned CS and they all rave about them and the convenience of being able to schedule childcare for existing DCs and knowing exactly when the baby will arrive, and none of them have had long healing periods afterwards/bad pain/nasty scars.

So, please tell me what the cons of planned CS are?! Otherwise I fear I will be rather gutted when the little one does turn, and of course the odds are she will!

Op, definitely push for what you think you will feel happier with. But I also think you need more help wrt the loss and birth of your baby last year. You say you find it hard to talk about and you're carrying all this inside you as if you are alone. It is a lot for you to deal with. Do you think it would help you to talk to someone 'professional' about it?

Who says cs is safer? Please give stats. I don't believe it is but there are a variety of factors to be taken into account.

CS is safer for baby but more risky for mother.

Stats on NICE website.

Having said that in the UK both ways of giving birth are pretty safe.