How do you call a section that is not planned but also not real _emergency_ section?

[bansku]

Word Emergency section to me sounds like a real emergency where baby has to come out immediately ie. quick general anesthetics, no time to clean tummy and vertical scar.

My friend said she had emergency section because not dilating. The procedure sounded more like planned section. Is this called a semi-emergency or have I missed something?

I think the problem with using the word emergency section is, as someone already pointed out, that it frightens people. If someone previously told me she/he had an emergency section I would think she/he or baby was dying and therefore an emergency section was performed.

I like the term 'unplanned c-section'.

It's not an 'emergency' situation.

But it's also not an elective c/s.

Frustrated - I was booked in for an induction but they couldn't do it and had to do a section. It was still considered elective though.

I prefer unplanned.

Good point about legal terminology, youlllaughaboutit

Just to add some extra terminology here... when I did my antenatal classes just over 2yrs ago, the MWs running that used the phrase 'urgent' for unplanned cs that occur in labour, and stuck to emergency for the real life-or-death crash sections, where woman is wheeled in & cut open in minutes. I think that was quite useful, as it calmed the sense of panic about a cs in that situation iyswim.

Some of the terminology is rubbish. I have had 2 emergency sections. One true crash with GA and 1 failure to progress. There were so different.
This time I am having an elective. Not sure why elective as I apparrently have no choice in the matter.
Not as bad though as "missed abortion" appearing on my notes after a miscarriage. Thanks for that.

I've got some sympathy with your there, skeggy. I had my MMC in Spain where the term is also "aborto diferido" (missed abortion).
The problem is that some of these medical terms seem to fail to take into account that medical situations about about the health (or the life or death) of a human being.
I can understand medics needing to distance themselves emotionally from their patients, but it doesn't necessarily make it any easier for the people they're looking after.

"Missed abortion" - what a terrible term!

Thanks for this thread - it has cleared up some questions I had as well!

Mintyy - I think you are misconstruing what the OP is saying - it's just a question of semantics (and all the more confusing when English is not one's first language) - it's not that she doesn't believe her friend or is trying to undermine what she said.

I've had a cat 1. I've always called it a crash section under ga