Amanda Holden .....Another one who is..........................

[4blue1pink]

Too posh to push - its an awful coincidence all these showbiz mums....anyone know her?!!

god i've missed all this.. that's what happens when you have work to do. at the end of the day, who gives 2 shiny shites as long as the babies are fluffy, lovely and safe.

6 weeks without driving isn't it? i was petrified of having a c section

Lockets, I had to be there at 7:00. I was sooooo hungry after DS was orn just before noon. They brought me some toast and jam in recovery. But then the anaesthesia made me sick and I puked it all up. And I was bloody starving again. That was fun.

I think the less traumatic experience is the one that the mother wants. It would be interesting to see a study on whether the mother mother got the delivery and supprt she wanted and if not getting it contributes to PND. I expect being unhappy about your experience must contribute to PND.

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Just the magazine for cod!

I had FOUR elective sections - I must be unbelievably posh

uwila - theres a survey on birth trauma going on at the moment - here - they are asking for peoples experiences in the last 4 years

Having had two emergency c-sections having been through hours of labour it is not easy physically (shaking violently from the epidural to lying in your bed wanting to pick up your baby when it is crying in the cot next to you and needing someone else to do it for you because you can't really move for the first 24hrs) and emotionally for not having had the birth you wanted and always questioning if you could have done something differently.

bint is Arabic for daughter according to this . I bet it was army slang from North Africa.

(lol at "chiefly British and offensive" )

I've sort of experienced both as had an emergency C-section after a 23 hour labour, and I have to say I agree with 4blue that labour is harder and more painful. C-section is no picnic either, but at least it's quick.

pmsl @Janh
they are great

Well I had an emergency c/s followed by a vbac and the c/s put me off so much that there is 5 years between the ds's. It took that long to mentally prepare myself incase I needed another c/s. Had c/s then needed blood transfusion, oxygen and catheter So not very easy or posh!

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Amanda Holden gets on my t*ts !

I read an interview with her when she was pregnant and she was going on and on about:
-how you could still look glamorous and sexy whilst pregnant
-how you could (and should) still wear high heels and expensive sexy dresses
-how there is no excuse for "letting yourself go"
...etc etc

I hope that if she gets pregnant again she puts on an extra 4 stone, has SPD, piles, water retention, puffy ankles......and then I'd like to see her in high heels and designer sexy clothes waddling down a red carpet somewhere.

Anti-AH vent over...thank-you very much

two c-sections here and no labour with either.. one emergency early and one 10 days late elective. No 3 if there is one will also be a c-section - too posh to push - damn straight

They give you a day for your c-section and a 'provisional' time. I was booked in for 10.30am and finally got to theatre closer to 3.30pm - emergencies come first.... that was horrendous - after fasting all night following an early dinner being sat in pre op waiting room with TV playing cooking shows......

I really could not care less how anyone delivers their baby - as long as their baby is healthy and they recover well..... Their business not mine.

apparently ah picks her toenails while watching tv...and her fave fashion item are her pink patterned wellies which she wears to walk her dogs Nobby and Fudge..she also says that she has a thick skin, so nothing humiliates her so she can take a pasting...

(c/o Closer magazine 4-10 Feb)

allie bored at work

How can she has gone to the cinema (pregnant I assume the thought was) on her due date, if she gave birth early???

The term "too posh to push" is a ridiculous one thought up by ddogy tabloids. Anyone who has had one will know it is utter rubbish.

4blue1pink - giving birth viginally does not make a person somehow better than others who don't you know?

The reports suggest AH had a medical reason for having a c section. She may have desperately wanted to give birth normally and have to get over it. Maybe she was told that a cs was safest fpr her and her baby. Or maybe she just opted for it because she wanted to. Either way it is none of our business and we, as mothers ourselves, shouldn't be the ones to criticise surely.

Well I had an elective C-section (2 actually), but let's just remember that elective means agreed upon in advance, not elected. Ds and DD both had extremely large heads which never engaged. That's it - not urgent, not life threatening - unless, of course, you lived 50+ years ago, when mother and baby would both have died (according to my consultant). My doctor wanted me to go to 40 weeks as best all round - we agreed dates for the birth (chances of spontaneous labour next to nothing when head not engage because too big to engage, by the way)and both times, the night before the babies were born I went out to dinner with DH and - so shoot me - had a small glass of champagne (makes Amanda Holden's trip to the cinema look positively tame).

Beter or worse than a vaginal delivery? I don't know - never lucky enough not to have the chance to compare. But hey, lucky enough to have 2 healthy babies and not be dead.

Yawn. Are we really so short of things to do that we have to criticise people's methods of giving birth when we've never seen their medical records but think we know them becasue they've been in a few crap sitcoms.

Spod - popping one out naturally. You make giving birth sound so easy if only they did just pop out!!!!

don't give monkey's chuff how baby got out of AH, but here are some observations:
i had placenta praevia twice and elec c-sections twice (obviously). I was in hospital for 6 weeks prior to 1st birth and 3 wks prior to 2nd. low-lying placenta was seen at 20 weeks and monitored after that, so i can't see how she wouldn't have known she had low-lying placenta prior to birth unless she didn't have any scans (unlikely).

she was on steve wright on radio 2 on the day before she had baby and certainly wasn't expecting to be having baby the next day from what she was saying.

i went to cinema two days before having dd2 - i escaped from hospital with dh and dd1 for our last family-of-3 outing, against wishes of consultant number 1 but with permission of consultant number 2. I'd had no bleeding so was given a bit of leeway.

I was in shocking pain with c-sect number 2 and i CERTAINLY aint back in hotpants, 4 months after the birth (nor have i ever been nor will i ever in the future)