Just looking for some reassurance and advice really. Me and DP recently found out we were expecting our second child and were over the moon after initial shock calmed down, DD is 18 months, I had a bleed at 6 weeks and had an early scan, we saw baby and heartbeat, and carried on trying not to get too excited just incase, all of my symptoms seemed to vanish and I went to my 12 weeks scan nervous and pessimistic only to find out we are expecting MCDA twins !
Anyways, we have spoke to our doctor and she recommends a C-Section, I feel this is the best option due to our daughter, we would have a date booked in and we would know when our twins were coming, this would mean that we could arrange childcare for her and have everything ready for when the twins were due to be delivered, also the risk of having one twin naturally and then having to have another through emergency c section is worrying me, my recovery with my first daughter wasn't two bad, episiotomy and a few tears, but still not lovely and the thought of recovering from both sounds awful. Another worry is that I feel C - Section delivery is simply safer for my twins, they will be born at the same time relatively and they won't have to deal with the stress of contractions.
Having said all this, despite being induced with my daughter I had a lovely birth and I'm terrified of having a C- Section, truly and utterly. I'm scared of the recovery and I'm scared of the surgery. I was actually really looking forward to having a "normal" birth again, and was hoping to be able to have a nice birth centre water birth, this is what I wanted with my daughter but due to induction it wasn't possible, so I'm gutted as with a twin birth if i had them vaginally they would recommend an epidural, whereas with my daughter I felt the pain was telling me we were getting somewhere, I knew when to push etc, I managed to get by on codeine and one shot of diamorphine with my first so epidural isn't appealing to me at all. I would love to have the twins vaginally but also I'm scared due to reasons stated above and I don't like the idea of a doctor putting his had all the way up me to potentially the 2nd twin to be delivered. I know ultimately if I was in that situation I wouldn't give a crap but I can't stop thinking about it all.
If anyone has positive twin birth stories, vaginally or C-Section that would be so so helpful as I'm lost and I don't know anyone who has had twins so I feel in the dark about it all !
TIA X