Hello everyone 👋 so great to hear from you all. You are absolutely ready to get those babies out at over 35 weeks @Beth804 I can only begin to imagine how incapacitated you are, and so heavy, painful and uncomfortable. Only ten days and those two will be in your arms 👣👣💜💜
@LittleMiss7 regarding c section, after talking to a midwife friend as well.as my mother who is a former nurse, plus the mumsnet army of course! I fully did my research before my 20 week scan so I was armed with the facts, as well as knowing from that research that if you waver at all it's very likely they will say 'oh let's talk about it next time...'. I knew I had to say with absolute clarity that I wanted a c section and there was no convincing me otherwise, there would be no wavering, I was 100 percent certain I would not want any intervention due to being asked to have it with my last natural labour where I declined, so I'd actually been in that situation where you are having to choose yourself or your baby. I choose myself essentially in that 'moment'.
I pushed this factor that although I had had two natural labour's and would go for another with a single pregnancy, a multiple had about a 2 percent chance of NO intervention (so forceps, hands, manual turning, vontuse, episiotomy... Ect ECT). Also there is about a 20 percent chance at my hospital that one will be born naturally and the other by emergency c section. The last thing I wanted to do was be this pushy c section woman, but hell it's two babies coming out of my vagina this time so at that twenty week scan and my first consultant it was the first thing I brought up.
I said my piece, explained my absolute no tolerance to any intervention, dilation checks, internal heart monitors on the babies heads (which are also incredibly common in multiple natural births) and the fact that my last labour was 45 minutes so the anxiety about going early in the supermarket with twins was also a kind of terrifying factor.
You are absolutely with a multiple within your rights to ask for ANY birth option. It's your body and there are two babies which means you are high enough risk to ask for a c section and get one. However you need to have your reasons of course set out plainly, as well as being completely honest with how much it's stressing you out. It's not a time to be accomadating, you are aloud to ask for it.
But plenty of twin births are natural and the recovery is so much faster from natural births generally, it's quicker to usually establish breast feeding and they will of course give most twin birth an epidural injection ad they can induce and plan these things. So they do obviously want to give you all the options and if I hadn't had any other children before I probably would try for an induction and vaginal birth. It's those two last labour's that have inform d my decision as well as my research and personal feelings about interference internally during labour.
Everyone is different and what's good for me could be the worst choice for another woman looking at a birth plan for twins.
So that's it really. If it's what you definitely want go in hard with your reasons, the facts, and say you want to.sign off on it there and then. That doesn't mean the date and time is booked, it's a pre form that is you giving your consent to a c section that you can still change your mind at any time, but it's put in your notes so it's decided and there for all to see unless you decide different.
Good luck, you just have to be really certain with your Consultant and to frankly say if it's not signed off on you can request a different consultant who will sign off on it