Anybody watched own C-Section being performed?

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Hello Mum's and mummy's to be. Just hoping that someone else has experienced watching own C-Section delivery of their baby or Partner's experiences? Any tip's or advice would be great. Thank's in advance.

Great response, alot to think about..Thank you :)

I imagine you’d need a strong stomach. Some people don’t mind watching procedures. Dad was squirming trying to watch his lumbar punctures so they got him a mirror so he could watch and ask questions.

I had one but I didn't want to see, my OH didn't watch either. I think it would have scared me to be honest. I had a great experience but it's still nerve wracking lying there awake and you can feel them shoving you about. I did ask for delayed chord clamp, I don't think you would see much anyway as once they are pulled out they are on you extremely quickly but it is however your choice! :)

Partner saw some of it and said it looked like a car crash.

It felt as though I was a giant handbag being rummaged around in.

The amount of blood I saw on the floor of the operating theatre was quite freaky, when I was being wheeled out after a complicated CS (placenta previa and accreta, 50% chance of hysterectomy) They had trouble stopping the bleeding. I don't think I'd have liked to have seen the expression on their faces!

DH filmed my ELCS and the surgeon decided to show off a bit by doing a ‘natural’ section where they make the incision then let the baby wriggle out by itself. I have watched the video and found it a bit gory tbh! At the time I had quite low blood pressure and was feeling queasy, with no desire to see what was going on

I have photos of my DD's being born by c-section, you can't see much even if the screen is down as your bump gets in the way.

Better you than me, OP, that sounds horrible! I can't even watch one on TV, even a fake one on a fictional show.

I saw DD's in the mirrored lights, so when DS was to be another CS I asked if I could watch, the angled a mirror and dropped the shield when it came to extracting it. I found it absolutely fascinating.

If you're squeamish - then probably best to avoid, but if you're not then go ahead, I still have photos of DS being extracted (had to ask the anaesthetist to take them as DP was too squeamish to watch)

I didn't, and I couldn't have done, but I heamoraghed (sorry wrong spelling) on the operating table, and was in there for three hours, I don't think that's something any one wants to see, it could lead to panic and I'm not sure they could erect the screen quick enough to avoid you seeing. It wouldn't be uppermost in their minds, put it that way,

Personally I'd advise against it, because if something goes wrong, or you don't cope with it as you thought you would, it will be a very very negative experience for you.

I have watched lots of of my operations over the years. I find stuff like that very interesting though..my DH thinks I'm gross!
They didn't let me see anything with my first c-section but with my second I got to see my baby still in the sack and then the surgeon break the sack and start to pull him out! I found it absolutely amazing!

If mine had been planned I totally would have wanted to watch. As it was I had given no consideration to it until it was happening, days into a long horrible labour, so just let the do what they did and tried to alert them to the fact I was having breathing difficulties one of my major regrets is that I was so distracted whe my child was being born. Watch!!