"natural caesarean" - anyone had one?

[AChristmasCarolinamoon]

there's an article about it in today's Guardian - it's supposed to be much gentler for the baby and a better experience for the parents.

They basically just take the baby out much more gradually and put it on your chest rather than taking it to a resuscitaire (this is assuming it's not distressed). There's no curtain so you can see your bump, although you wouldn't see the incision of course because the bump hides it.

There were some lovely photos in the paper to go with it - nice dim lighting and lots of smiles .

Interesting. It seems to make good sense.

Fascinating article. Ds noticed it and was very impressed - I had to do the whole 'babies grow in their mummys' tummies' speech. Which I wasn't expecting for a while yet (he's 2).

Sounds fantastic!

sorry but I could not watch that at all. It would be like the film "alien" to me. Just whip me in, whip it out and stitch me back up thank you.

What a lovely article. I really admire people like Fisk who challange the norm in this way. Brilliant.

I thought it sounded fab - it almost brought a tear to my eye (over-sentimental bint that I am).

I had an emergency cs but ds wasn't in distress and it would have been lovely to have done it this way. As it was, he spent a good 10mins on the resuscitaire because the MW forgot to bring him over to us .

Presumably these ops are done on the NHS?

I really, really wanted this. But at Kings they just didn't get it at all. I asked for dd to be given to me straight away but they still took her away to the bloody resuscitaire, though it was bloody obvious she was more than fine. 10 out of 10 Apgar, pink, breathing, responding. I actually feel quite cross reading about this as the team at Kings, though very nice, just seemed to think I was mad. They also wouldn't take the sodding screen down so I watched the whole thing on the overhead light.

Yes, I saw this and thought it was really good. I had dd1 by elective section and, possibly because it was elective and planned a good while in advance (I had placenta praevia and had been in hospital from 27 weeks on) it was very calm, very unstressful experience. I did have a screen up (dh wanted it!) and they did take dd away to wrap her up when she was first born, because she was tiny and although breathing OK (I'd had more steroids than a Romanian weight-lifter) was pretty cold - needed to stay on a heated pad for a couple of days. However, I held her as soon as they'd covered her in blankets... she was still covered in vernix and the remains of my placenta stuck to her head (gross!). The anaesthetist took some pics for us, and completely forgot to aim solely at the head end, so we have some pics with me and dh grinning like idiots at dd1 at the head end, and the consultants hands up to the elbows in my guts at the other end! Nice! If I had to have another c-section, I'd ask for this....

I'd ask for a natural caesarean, I mean... not for the anaesthetist to take pictures of the gory bits!

Well I wanted pics of the gory bits but they wouldn't allow cameras in the theatre! Something to do with not giving us evidence to sue them with I think.

It sounds nice but dh would have been on the floor if we hadn't had the screen up.

I had music playing and DS was bought straight to me. I didnt see him coming out though.