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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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Want to see a cesarean on the internet?

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pupuce · 12/08/2006 22:50

Well this website does show one.... it took about 3 mins for it to download (though it did not look like it was downloading on my computer) so don't despair if it takes a little while.
It's a US film and some of its contents is debatable but you can certainly see well what they're doing!

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Quootiepie · 13/08/2006 13:43

BTW, the ventouse used to deliver DS wasnt a plunger shaped one like that link! It was called a Kiwi ventouse, and looked alot more pleasent!

Quootiepie · 13/08/2006 13:46

Kiwi Ventouse (omnicup)

blueshoes · 13/08/2006 13:48

oops, please ignore my second "post". Have to blame to pooter.

Quootiepie, appreciate the offer . I already got an idea from some threads. So only a visual could add to that.

Pupuce, my first birth was an emergency cs. So never birthed vaginally before. There are so many things about childbirth which are not the "choice" of the mother, including cs and epi/forceps/ventouse.

Maybe your film clip might scare the few mothers who are choosing cs without medical risk factors, but it does not help women who find themselves being advised to take that route or asked to balance risk factors. Anymore than it would help to show a pregnant mother a film of an abortion who is considering terminating for serious birth defects.

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pupuce · 13/08/2006 13:50

or watching bloody sky and seing difficult births when you want a natural birth....
Still that films depicts fairly accurately a section!

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MissyCocker · 13/08/2006 13:53

Blueshoes, why doesn't it help? I think it's far better to be informed.

Would you discourage pregnant women from watching a vaginal birth too?

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pupuce · 13/08/2006 13:53

Actually blueshoes I disagree if I had to have a section for medical reasons I would WANT to know how it is done ! and prepare myself!
The baby has to come out one way or the other....

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Quootiepie · 13/08/2006 13:55

before I had DS I was hooked on watching every type of birth on SKY... when the time came and I was induced, episiotomy, ventouse, epidural I wasnt phased, and I didnt have any notions of births being all "normal". I think it helps.

blueshoes · 13/08/2006 13:57

It's surgery, I do geddit. I felt very bruised after my crash cs (it took 11 min from when doctor decided to operate to when my dd was lifted out) which felt as if I had done thousands of situps without stop. But otherwise, the recovery was fine.

I appreciate that the surgical option is not ideal. But I don't need to watch it anymore than I needed to watch an open heart surgery to assess the risk of whether to consent to my dd's lifesaving op.

BROWNY · 13/08/2006 13:59

All I can say, is that I'm glad I had a morphine button to press when I woke up from my emergency c-section (I had pre-eclampsia and baby was in distress), I had three vaginal births after my c-section and my recovery was almost immediate, rather than the 2 months of soreness from the section.

magic5 · 13/08/2006 14:20

i had a section with my twins four years ago,it seemed to take ages and now i know why.have n ot seen any with twins being delivered via section.mine were because one was transverse and the other breech born @ 33 wks.

Jimjams2 · 13/08/2006 14:21

It wasn't yucky, just interesting. Unless you\re very squeamish. Forceps deliveries would prob look pretty violent sometimes, - any delivery where they have to get the baby out fast....

sallystrawberry · 13/08/2006 14:22

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sparklemagic · 13/08/2006 15:17

very interesting to watch, I appreciated this. I'm like blueshoes in that I had a crash cs so was watching this knowing there was a hell of a lot less time taken over mine so kind of picturing what they did to my stomach and it has gone a long way to explaining my pain and shock afterwards (well, that and 50 hours of labour!)

It's good to see what happened to me. And if I was coming up to a section, I would be glad I had seen this as personally I like to KNOW as much as possible.

It's gone some way to filling in some blanks for me, I was under GA so my son's birth a complete mystery to me - this was good to see! It made me appreciate even more that I was born in this era of medical intervention, and it's also made me realise why, four years down the line, my tummy is still numb!

Elf1981 · 13/08/2006 15:27

pupuce - your line about making it as romantic as you like, it's still an op - I never said my section was romantic. But it was more than likely a safer option for my dd's arrival.

And personally I dont see how "romantic" can be termed against any birth, section or 'natural'!

Elibean · 13/08/2006 16:29

Another 'like to know' one here. I was mostly just amazed at the skill of surgeons, doing all that through a relatively small space (I know, applies to most surgery). I watched it knowing that dd was not breech, and came out head first and a lot faster - but also knowing that I'm at high risk of needing a second section, given my history: did feel a bit squeamish, but tbh no more so than watching a vaginal delivery on satellite - they make me squirm too.
I think births are a mixture of totally unromantic blood, pain and guts and utter magic whichever way you do it, and look forward to my next and last one with excitement and fear!

Highlander · 13/08/2006 18:18

they offered to lower the screen for DS1, but I imagined I would be too horrified at much actual abdominal fat I had (as opposed to my imgained Kate Moss tummy )

And I hate the way babies look dead when they're born. By the time they'd howked him out and passed him to the paediatrician he was nice and pink. Aaprt from the bloody great ventouse bruise on his head

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pupuce · 13/08/2006 19:53

I see DD's birth (water) very beautiful and yes I'd say somewhat romantic, it was a very calm and positive affair. I know other women who view it like that... I wasn't thinking natural = romantic and section = not romantic but I DO know several women who feel (for their own reasons) that elective (non medical) sections are a very safe and a pleasant affair... a painless birth (though they forget the amount of pain relieving drugs that they do get given afterwards!... and then they ask if they can take a paracetamol when BF LOL).... I think seeing this section (which is not horrid but factual) is showing the surgery in it's matter of fact way that's all.

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1Baby1Bump · 13/08/2006 19:58

do u just open it then wait?
i wanna see it!

zookeeper · 14/08/2006 11:28

I've had three sections - the first an emergency after years (or so it felt) of labour and the second two on medical advice.

The planned ones were, for me, very calm and positive - any regrets I had about gving birth vaginally were forgotten when in the middle of the following night a new mum was admitted to the bed next to mine - she had had the baby delivered by forceps after (she said) a 76 hours labour. She had torn and had had stitches and the baby looked horrific - deep gouge marks around his head and black eyes. She sobbed and sobbed and sobbed the whole time I was there and the poor thing was utterly traumatised. I am sure it will stay with her for ever, and not in a good way.

Having seen her, i would have a section every time!

waterfalls · 14/08/2006 11:43

I had to be given a general anesthetic (sp) halfway through my c section because my feelings came back, and my god I hope I never experience pain like that again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lanismum · 14/08/2006 12:38

that was really interesting, i never realised how long it takes for them to get the baby out!

poppiesinaline · 14/08/2006 12:58

that was amazing to watch. I never realised how involved a C-section was or how long it took. I still got the 'ahhhhhhh' feeling though when the baby was born.

CaptainDippy · 14/08/2006 13:03

Wow!! Incredible - Thank you for posting the link.

just for the record - I hope I never have to have a C-Section!

Ahem.

pucca · 14/08/2006 23:34

Does anyone know what format this is in? i.e real player? etc etc, i can't get it to play

Flumpybumpy · 15/08/2006 19:03

It's Real 1 player. Just loaded up on mine.

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