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To be upset by my friend saying this? Or am I over reacting?

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Slh122 · 07/01/2014 18:23

Yesterday at my 36 week MW appointment the midwife told me it feels like the baby has turned breech. I'm going for a scan on Thursday to confirm baby's position and then she said the consultant will offer me an ECV, otherwise I'll be booked in for a c section at 39 weeks.
I was talking about it with my friend today (she had a baby last month) and told her that I was planning on saying no to the ECV as I don't feel comfortable with it or the risks associated. She then said 'why would you willingly choose to have a c section?' And started going on about all the women on her post natal ward who had had c sections - apparently 'all of them' had infections from the op and only 2 of them had been able to hold their baby more than once in over a week. She then went on to tell me about what an accomplishment it was for her to give birth naturally, and how she'd never allow a c section as she'd feel the experience would have been 'stolen' from her. Hmm
AIBU to feel upset by what she said or am I over thinking things and over reacting? I feel like just not speaking to her anymore.

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BrickorCleat · 10/01/2014 08:42

It's highly possible that's she has never, ever achieved a single thing off her own bat on her entire life.

What she's boasting about us purely down to the physical hand she was deal at birth, enabling her to give birth in the way she did.

That is hardly an achievement.

What a pathetic little show off. Pity her and ignore such irrelevant nonsense.

I wish you a safe birth. The stuff that REALLY matters starts the second you meet your baby.

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