To love the lovely lovely c-section bliss

[mummyanonymous]

Natural labour: bad
Major abdominal surgery: good

Natural is bad for you in some way then YANBU

If

Well I'm dreading the possibility that I'll not be able to have a VBAC, mine was hideous. Cat 1 though, so I suppose never going to be like a clean up at the dentist.

Have you had actually HAD one?

I'm not sure why you're saying it, but the major abdominal surgery worked out well for me twice.

Not got a clue about natural labour, but it sounds a bit eyewatering to me

5 days post c section here - not sure bliss the word . Powered by painkillers more apt

And have had both c section and natural - both have issues but not sure c sec bliss

Natural labour is fine

I had a C section. The natural labour I experienced beforehand...I can still recall the pain now!

I didn't find c-sections 'bliss' tbf but there we go. Healthy kids though, that's all that matters after all this time. Have you just had a baby mummy?

Well if you had a good c-section and are all blissed out then that is truly wonderful, and congratulations!

However, it is a bit sweeping to say either statement really, because people have good natural labours and bad c-sections, and vice versa.

The drugs were bliss!

hazey at sitting uncomfortably on the fence.

I struggle to imagine any delivery to be pure bliss but had a few great moments in my natural deliveries so imagine there can be great moments in a C-section too. Seeing the baby must surely top the list?

I had to have a C-Section and it was really bloody awful. Thankful for the safe delivery of my twins though.

Agrees with OP.
I've had both.

much preferred my VB, even though the pain afterwards was much worse than with the CS.

No further explanation from OP them?

have had 2 c secs and 3 natural no no no for c secs thank god for natural and a water birth as well i hate major surgery just to have a baby unless of course its for reasons medical and not just being to posh to push lol

I had to have a c-section with dd after a weekend of labour and nothing happening. Little sod angel had got her umbilical cord caught around her ankle and was bungee jumping at my vj for hours before they realised she was in distress!

I was blissed out by my delivery tbh...pain free, chatting to the midwife/nurse and not even thinking about what was happening. The actual delivery bit was a bit uncomfortable (jiggled up and down on an operating table as they yanked dd out of me as fast as they could), but afterwards was fine. I was dreading the stitches coming out more than anything and that was a piece of pish after all!

I wanted another straight away. Unfortunately it took me 4 years to get pregnant after dd and by then t'was too late.

But no, YANBU to be blissed out if my own experience was owt to go by!

with my c secs they stapled me not stitched and lol @bunjee baby but glad for you that she was fine i also stayed awake for both of mine and it felt like someone washing up in my tummy and dh didnt even go pale lol

I've had 2 sections and yes. Compared to the pain of labour, they were ...not bliss...but nowhere near as painful. Not before, during or after.

I do have a nice scar though.

i've never got the 'washing up' thing... mine felt like someone kicking and punching the living daylights out of my abdomen while another person searched for something they'd dropped in a chock-full binbag.

you must be shite at washing up, is all i can say.

'sweeping statement'. That whole 'sweep' thing is one of the major reasons I am embracing my conversion to giving birth via the surgeons knife of bliss.

Totally agree with the op.

Even though (maybe because) the cs was crash under general.

The vbac was horrific, and I've had much longer lasting problems from that (years not weeks).

It's all the luck of the draw though, you can get awful problems arising from either. And not forgetting the main point is that mum and baby make it through alive, no matter the method.