Caesarean sections linked to higher risk of hysterectomies

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this is a link to that Guardian article. Searched but did not see a post for it yet:

sections linked to higher risk of hysterectomies

Apologies if I am repeating info.

thanks tellusmater but to be honest the only way I can cope with it is knowing it will never ever happen again....i.e. not have another baby or have an elective. Nothing would ever convince me to have a vaginal birth again.....I know for some people it is easier second time around but I couldn't go through a second pregnancy not knowing. And no amount or type of talking can change that afterall birth is the big unknown

God, I'm not saying the risks should be kept quiet. Not at all. I think you should go into labour knowing as much as you can (although I am about birth plans, but that's only because mine went out of the window before we even started ).

Becka1 - an elective CS was suggested as a possibility for me given my very severe anxiety, so you won't necessarily get pushed into a vaginal delivery against your will.

I personally don't know of anyone who has had a c-section in a situation where a natural birth would have been safer.

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sorry pricessosyth but you mustn't know many other people in this situation then.....since having the riskiest delivery ever I've met lots of other people with similar stories i.e. heartbeat lost at the end,assisted delivery with complications, being rushed to theatre etc
I wish they had spoken to me about it before hand - I didn't even know that a placenta could be retained and not come out 'normally'!!!And it really never occurred to me that having a baby could lead you to have a blood tranfusion!There was a very real point where they couldn't stop the bleeding after my birth and I was waiting for them to say you'll have to have a hysterectomy. Very lucky that didn't happen.
I know plenty of people for whom a section would have been/was safer due to the circumstances they were in. I don't think we can ever generalise either way - has to be down to the individual circumstances

sorry princessosyth - read your post wrong!

Well, had I gone for the elective CS then I would have been one of those people - statistically anyway. My PPH was probably due to a (very) long labour and intervention. There wasn't any reason why it should happen again (although I did also have a very significant bleed when I had a miscarriage as well, so seem to be prone to it).

But for a lot of my second pregancy, the anxiety was crippling.

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My community midwife was really marvellous. And my GP as well. They spent a lot of time going through what had happened and why. And more than that really. That sounds very technical, and it wasn't, although the scientist in me does like data . I suppose it was like counselling.

And once the CS was offered, it took the pressure off and I could think about the birth without panicking and be a bit more rational about it all. Because I really think if I had asked and it had been immediately ruled out then I wouldn't have been able to get to grips with anythng at all.

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FioFio

So sorry to hear that.

What you put in your birth plan sounds completely reasonable. I think I was much more gung-ho than that, having been to the Active Birth Centre and heard stories about people giving birth to healthy 10lb babies 3+ weeks overdue and against all medical advice. I just wish I hadn't been quite so gullible.

I realised later that the ones who had a difficult birth or c-section edited themselves out of those kind of discussions.

i dont remember the thing you had to sign with dd(first dc) but do with ds 1 and 2.and i did end up with the nic to bladder as theyd warned may happen ,but felt strangely calm about it!

"There is a perception in this country that childbirth is a risk-free procedure" - NO THERE ISN'T! IMO the perception in this country is that medical intervention is necessary and welcome for birth to proceed without risk, when generally speaking the exact opposite is true.

Totally agree. I am stunned by the number of women I know who, when pregnant with their first dc, ASSUME that they need to be in a large hospital, with huge numbers of medical staff present, and all kinds of interventions. We have become so far removed from a culture that sees childbirth as a natural occurrence which doesn't require intervention unless something has actually gone wrong. I speak as someone who had a CS with dc 2 - in this case, medically necessary. It followed a totally normal first birth, where I was attended by my dh and one midwife. Somehow we need to return to a culture that fosters confidence in women so that they don't just assume that birth has to be needles, instruments, consultants etc