Hello,
I have just found out that I am expecting DC2, early days but quite excited!
The only thing is I had a difficult birth with my son; I was induced at 42 weeks, my waters broke with severe meconium in them, I was 4cm when I went up to the labour ward and I remained there for the next 14 hours with the baby's heart rate wildly going up and down and contractions every two minutes. Eventually they did a distress test on my son and rushed me into an emergency c section. Apparently when they got in there they discovered that I had Bandl's ring although afterwards no-one seemed to be able to tell me much about it other than it is very rare.
I am understandably nervous about what will happen this time. I will obviously ask for advice and ideally an appointment with a consultant to talk about the options and risks but have been told by the midwife I spoke to that that would be unlikely and that 'this birth will be different'.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Am I likely to get it again? Would an elective section be the safest option?
In addition to this, if I have an elcs, do then generally do this early or on your due date? Not important I know, but the baby is due two weeks after my son's birthday and ideally I don't want them to have the same birthday!
Thanks in advance!