to be annoyed with some friends

[hugglebug]

who think that because I had a (non emergency) CS that it can't have been very traumatic and that I'm being soft for feeling wobbly over watching a CS on OBEM tonight.

You aren't blabbling about it on fb are you??? (I've come to hate going on fb on Wednesdays)

Just tell yourself that they've never had your experience (cos even if they have had CS, it wasn't your CS iyswim) so cannot possibly know how you feel. And even if they do think you're "being soft" why do they feel the need to tell you so, and make you feel worse. If they're your friends, then why not just say something vaguely sympathetic to you?
Just because they don't think it was traumatic, doesn't mean you don't and the least they should do as your friends is acknowledge your feelings, even if they don't understand why you feel that way.

YANBU. I can't stand it when people dismiss others experiences like that.

I get emotional every week watching OBEM and if there's a birth that's remotely similar to mine I get wobbly too.

YANBU

You ARE blabbing about it aren't you? On FB I mean.

I watched amanda holdens show where she became a midwife a year or so ago and there was a birth similar to mine and nearly threw up watching it

Some people don't understand until they have had the experience themselves.

Even then, something that was straightforward to one person can be traumatic to another.

YANBU :)

YABU to watch OBEM in general

YABa bit U. It IS all relative. If you had a CS without any complications, it is not traumatic like other births can be. And perhaps if your friends have had one of those genuinely traumatic ones (or even just a natural birth, which is pretty traumatic first time round), it could be annoying to have you 'going soft' on a CS. I've had both and I can get all misty eyed and reminiscent at the CS, but when they bring the forceps out it does make me cringe somewhat.

Forceps..... :(