Has anyone had elective C/S under General Anesthetic

[beeper]

My DS was born after 24 hour labour and a crash section.

The epidural had blind spots and lets just say it was sheer agony.

I am 14 weeks and have to see obs' consultant in the next week and I cant have a epidural again...or rather I won't.

I don't really want to try for a VBAC as the thought of another crash section makes me squirm, and I am convinced it led to two years of post natal depression.

Any experience or advice would be welcome.

Beeper you poor thing. I am certain that nay consultant will look at what happened last time and ensure that any epidural/spinal is working well for you.
Can you have this baby in a different hospital, with a doula to support you and be assertive for you?

Have a look at the Birth Trauma Association website and take a look at the section on subsequent births after a traumatic birth - there are lots of positive stories there.

I am so that this sort of thing happens on maternity wards in the 3rd richest country in the world! It is so primitive and barbaric and as I keep harping on - the only part of medicine where intolerable things are done to people without pain relief. 2 friends in my NCT had a forceps delivery with no pain relief, both DH deeply traumatised by what they sort. It is disgusting. Do you think making an official compaint would help you get closure on this and then go to another hospital to have your baby?

By what they 'saw' even

Yes lula I was given a GA immediatly the baby was out.

Yes I am back at the same hospital as the other nearest is 30 miles away and has a tiny neonatal ward, and I just don't want to be that far away from home.

The only thing that is giving me any confidence it that when I had the ruptured ectopic when DS was two the guy who operated on me will be my consultant and he was amazing and treated me well so if I get to deal mainly with him then I will go ahead but if not I may have to see about other options.

I had an elective section under GA. Before going in for the op, the anaesthetist met with me a hour and we went over the procedure. She discussed epidurals, spinal blocks and GA and the risks/benefits of all three and told me to think about what I wanted to do. I told her that my preference was to be awake for the op but that if she considered a GA to be the safest option for me and the baby then that was what we'd do - after all, she was the expert.

She said she wanted to look into things a bit more and to talk to the specialists who monitor my condition.

When I went in for the op, she said they were going to try a GA. The section did not go smoothly (but they were expecting difficulties, so it wasn't a problem per se) but I was fine afterwards.

i had a GA and then epi and woke up from the GA to find the epi had not taken and was in loads of pain. the hospital is now investigating so can't say to much more. only advice is to make them VERY AWARE of the problems you had last time ans ask them what they are going to put in place given a worst case scenario. get it all worked out before you have it so you know what can be done when its not working.

I had a spinal block on ds1 and ds2 and it was fine. I could tell what they were doing but it wasn't painful IYKWIM. For ds3 I had a GA ( Emergency CS for placenta praevia } and was told I had a baby boy when I woke up. The wound was very painful though! With the spinal I coudn't feel anything in the wound for ages. With the GA, once it had worn off there was no pain relief.