To love the lovely lovely c-section bliss

[mummyanonymous]

Natural labour: bad
Major abdominal surgery: good

never had a c-section, but 2 fantastic births with 1 shot of petadine each time.

c-section scare me, how can you lie there and let someone cut you open

McHappyPants2012 - didn't really have much choice tbh!

McHappy, It is pretty easy when you have been gang raped at 13, beaten so bad that your end up with a pelvic fracture (amoungst other injuries) needing emergency surgery, which means that you can never give birth the 'normal' way without you and your baby very highly dying.

I didn't really want to go all emotive, i do not like sharing deeply personal information like that, but really maybe this will make you think again before getting all high a mighty about VB, perhaps you can gather a smidgin of compassion and empathy for othes choices.

Good grief OTT so sorry to hear that

hear hear otchhainye

Some posters on this thread are clearly up their own bucket fanjos arses

In all seriousness, though - can we not just let each other live, fgs?

Sorry to hear that, OTT.

The vast majority of sections are performed for medical reasons. 'Too posh to push' is a bit of a myth and only really applies to a tiny minority of women. Which is why the snotty attitude of some women towards section makes me itch. Have a bit of fucking compassion. And dont count yourself out of the game yet. My best friend just had her fourth baby by section because of medical complications, after three quick, sneeze-and-theyre-out homebirths...

Nice hippo, really nice

never said c-section was the work of the devil.

if somehow i magically got pregnant, and i needed a c-section for the sake of mine or baby heath then i would.

ummmm, joke, clearly...

As I said, in all SERIOUSNESS - can we not just let each other get on with it? All this sniping and superiority is really unpleasant. far more unpleasant than my fanny jokes

McHappy- It was a simple choice: CS; or dead baby and probably dead me from infection too if I'd refused all surgery (the surgery would have been the same as a CS to extract a dead stuck baby without causing me too much damage.)

Why do some people get so het up over how their baby got from inside of them to outside?

Some women have easier births, some have much more difficult births. C Sections can be easy and they can be hard. Same with vaginal births. Easy, hard, CS, VB - it's all meaningful to each of us.

I had both my sections for medical reasons. First was at 43 weeks gestation, almost, and I had held out all that time before finally agreeing to induction, which failed and ended up with my baby in distress.

Second time, I had obstetric cholestasis and associated liver fialure and my baby had to be delivered by section at 36 weeks.

I have never met a woman who had a section just because she felt like it. Which begs the question - why are women judged for it?

I might be a bit crude in my delivery, but the real disgrace on threads like tis is people who think they are superior because they were lucky and their births went smoothy.

smoothly

Yup. Take that up with the OP, I guess.

Funnily enough, in RL, I never have this 'debate'. All my friends are understanding and supportive of each others circumstances and there is none of this sniping.

Only on MN

Pethidine. early stages of labour. Fucking fantastic

EMCS - lengthy labour then cat 1 not so sure I loved it as signing consent form whilst being run down a corridor WITHOUT dh high as a kite and in tears when being told they had 10 secs to get my spinal in or it was GA. Wouldn't call the whole experience bliss but did get a blissful package.

VBAC - very empowering and glorious. Both had labour and pain, but luckily my vbac was a walk in the park.

Have friends who have serious fanjo issues post birth but I

was lucky!

OTT I am :( on your behalf, that it an awful story....

Well you'll always have the rubber medal brigade in a debate about birthin'.

Ironic thing with me is I spent my life before kids bemoaning the size of my child-bearing hips but reasoning that at least they'd be handy in childbirth... turns out they couldn't even do that job and I'm back to bemoaning em again!!

3 CS here. don't have fanjo damage but have a lovely Cs overhang!
Recovery was fine with all 3 and using babysling and driving within a few days.
Each to their own.

I've given birth both ways - both were very good births but I much prefered the natural labour. The pain was manageable with gas and it was a really amazing experience. I was so proud of myself.

It is Orm. A complete disgrace. But allowed to stand, I see.

Well said W0rmy.

3 weeks on from my cs, no bliss here. 3 nights on post natal ward from hell. Scar infected and sore and stinks. 2 different anti biotics seem to have done nothing other than give us both thrush.

I've had 2 c sections in less than a year at 2 diff hospitals. First was emergency and second elective, elective is a totally diff experience but both were fine, recovery not as bad as I was expecting at all and after about a week was able to carefully pick up dd1 but they do advise against it.

Do get disappointed sometimes that I haven't experienced natural birth as was quite looking forward to it but they don't give you a medal for it and I think us c sections are just as brave