More children after prolapse repair surgery

[Hello1312]

Hello! I gave birth 6 months ago and have prolapse from a traumatic birth which I am only just coming to terms with. I have seen a urogynae who has advised that I could have more children after repair surgery but I would need to have an elective c section (which I am fine with).

I was just wondering if anyone has gone on to have more children after having prolapse repairs (either vaginally or via c section) and whether the repairs were affected. It seems that there are different schools of thought on whether surgery should only be performed after your family is complete. My urogynae advised that it is the vaginal birth rather than the pregnancy that causes prolapse. Ideally I would like to have the repair surgery sooner rather than later as it is affecting my quality of life but I am worried to compromise any repairs given the conflicting opinions on when is it best for surgery to be performed.

Thank you very much in advance !

I can’t help you but am dealing with the same thing! Would like another child thou but can’t deal with this for much longer I hope we get answers

Suppose there is no definitive answer is the problem. I had prolapse with 3 vaginal births and waited until Id had my last for fix. My friend has sections and still had prolapse caused by the weight if carrying babies.

What fox did you have did it go well x was it nhs

If an elective section is an option on the public list then you can have a another child.

My friend was advised to wait on the repair until she was finished having DC as she wanted one more.

It was crazy allowing her live like that for 2 years, 3rd baby was over 10lb.

Thankfully she has recovered now and has her tubes tied.

I’m in the same position! One optimistic urogyn says it’s fine but many disagree :/ I can’t imagine living with this prolapse for many more years, let alone the added weight of pregnancy pushing down on it!

I don’t think there’s a right answer unfortunately, I suppose you have to balance quality of life and having to have a second repair potentially.

Different situation but I had a prolapse (not too extreme) and with Pilates, physio and time it improved to having almost no symptoms. Got pregnant again and went for elective section and haven’t had any more problems with it. My obgyn did say that pregnancy could make it worse but that vaginal birth was the main risk.

6 months is early days so hopefully you’ll see an improvement anyway

@Hello1312 did you go ahead with surgery?