companions udring c sections

[kittenstorm]

Like on the last episode(and a few other OBEM) why aren't your birth partners allowed in during the c section prep? Isn't it scary to be all by yourself while its all getting set up and, if like this past episode and its a ECS, you can't have anyone there for epidural etc? If your parnter can be there for the section, why not the prep stuff? or is that just this show? I think I would be scared of only having strangers around.

My other half wasn't allowed in while they were prepping me. It may have been because it was an emergency due to potential cord prolapse and so they were prepping me for a GA at the same time as trying to do the spinal in case the spinal didn't work quickly enough. Once the spinal was working and they were satisfied they wouldn't have to knock me out, they let him in. Not sure how long that took - I was too busy silently crying and kinda hyperventilating! To be fair, in situations where I am that freaked out, I always shut my eyes and just concentrate on getting through it so it probably wouldn't have made much difference if my other half was there or not.