Elective c section advice!

[henrysmama2012]

We went for a routine scan today (39 weeks) & found out the baby has flipped to breech, is measuring big (42 weeks) and there is also slightly raised levels of amino fluid so we are scheduled for an elective c section tomorrow at 9am! I was planning a hypno water birth, lol...am happy to roll with the punches though! But I wondered if anyone has any positive elective c section stories they could share with me as I am a lite but nervous!

I had two planned caesareans and while I couldn't say they were a walk in the park the surgery itself was very calm, relaxed (even lighthearted at times). Having my partner there made a big difference and he helped my hold my baby on my chest for the remainder of the surgery.

Ask to put you gown on backwards (e.g. so it opens at the front) then you can hold you baby skin to skin for the duration of the surgery. If they tell you you can't because it will "compromise the surgical field" - that is rubbish - the screen is there to protect the surgical field not the gown you have been wearing for the last 3 hours wandering round a ward.

Once back on the ward don't do anything before your next round of pain meds have kicked in (e.g. don't try and get out of bed if you are coming to the end of a pain management period, wait half and hour then make that trip to the shower).

There might be some useful stuff on www.csections.org too

Good luck.