anyone had a c/section with classical or other unusual incision???

[MummyAnnabella]

i had emerg c/section last time due to fibroids and defficulty getting baby out.

consultant has said this time that he may not be able to use same scar and may even have to open me up vertically or even horizontally but way up my tummy and not at bikini line.

am worried about this and also having a massive scar as well as last scar which isnt too bad. also recovery will be worse i assume too?

any with any experience??

I had to have a second cut made when Tink was born, they couldn't get to her head and had to cut upwards so I have an upside down T shape. They said at the time it would mean I can't have a VBAC which is upsetting to me - partly because I would prefer to and partly because I am likely to go into labour naturally and end up needing another GA.

Anyway, I can't give you much advice but I would have thought the different scar will probably be only on the inside, my SIL had to have a different site because the placenta had grown over the old one.

i had the upside down T last time but have only the bikini scar on the outside. this time though the vertical scar would be on outside or another horozonal on outside if way up mu tum. have never heard of this with anyone else but i do have big firoids.

i too cant have VBAC and it is really annoying when people think you are too posh to push when you say youare having another c/s.

i did go into premature labour last time naturally so even though i was due to have c/s i ended up with emerg c/s. didnt need GA though and ther has been no talk of a GA this time - i def dont want that!

I had to have a GA because things had gotten bad - rapid progression and footling meant time was in short supply, I had taken Heparin in the morning and the anaesthetist wouldn't risk bleeding into my spine by giving me an epidural and I have a bad back and there wasn't time to find out if it was safe (physio said it wouldn't have been).

I gave birth to my first naturally, there wasn't even a MW in the room. I just used entonox and TBH that was to cope with the fear more than the pain. I went to fully dilated with Tink with no medication (or food or water, just in case I needed a CS) and would have happily carried on. Give me a natural labour any day!

Mum had her hysterectomy vertical and it's made a mess of her tummy, she's going to ask about scar removal because she is so conscious of it. A horizontal scar should heal up ok because it is in the direction of the grain of your muscles, eventually it should fade quite well. I'd ask them to rejoin the fat layer though because you could end up with an overhang high up where it would be more obvious.