Ive never met any one in RL who had a general anasthetic for a c section. Have any of you had one?

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I did, it was classed as emergency apparently.
Undiagnosed breach.

Twas a horrific birth up till the drugs.

Ds has slash marks across the small of his back to this day and he is 6.

I have never met or spoken to anyone else with the same experience.
Do you know any one or did you have a general?
Why did you have a general?
And what are your memories of it? Good or bad?

My surgeon came in to see me some time in the first 24 hours afterwards but I was so off my tits on morphine but I don't really remember it. It really upsets me that i don't really remember the first 48 hours of my son's life

I had a general 7 weeks ago because the epidural would not go in.
Although it would have been a bit of a smash and grab raid (less than 5 minutes after they started the baby was born, and it was my second section so there was scarring to go through) neither of us was in particularly bad shape afterwards.

I would rather have been awake to see my baby born, but luckily I had a midwife who stayed in theatre, told me lots about the birth and took the baby straight to my DH waiting outside. There was real concern that my baby would be brain damaged if they didn't get her out (she is fine) and as it was a VBAC attempt I wasn't bothered by the section itself. So not traumatic really. Not ideal, but not a bad experience.

I'm so sorry to read about people having awful times. My emergency section under GA wasn't traumatic at all. I gave birth to twin1 quickly and easily with gas and air, then pushed again and twin2's hand and foot popped out! The registrar tried internal version, but she wasn't moving so they pushed me down the hall to the operating theatre, said 'We're going to push on your throat now' and that was it. I woke up first feeling freezing cold, dozed off again and when I woke the second time they were both by me in one of those plastic cots.

It was worse for my husband I think because it seemed like a long time he waited holding twin1, not knowing what was happening, until they came to him with twin2 and the babies were reunited.

I've had a VBAC since (which was quick and uncomplicated) it was more painful than the former labour, even with the attempt at internal version included. Obviously it was better to be fully conscious straight afterwards and walking within minutes rather than drifting in and out for the rest of the day and stuck in bed for 24 hours.

No one told me any details of the operation afterwards but I suppose they thought the fact that she was transverse was fairly obvious.

I did. Hated it. Traumatic - worse day of my life really, which is a very sad thing to say about the birth of your babies. I'd been in hospital for a month due to placenta praevia with recurrant bleeds in a twin pregnancy. At 35 weeks I had a whopper bleed in the night which tailed off but spooked them enough into giving me a caesarean that morning. Everything went wrong; epidural needle went in too far, spinal block didn't work so when I felt them cutting I was knocked out with GA and missed the birth of my babies after a fucking horrible month going mad in hospital bleeding like a tap.

My husband sat outside the theatre for forty minutes (not allowed to see them being born althought we begged and pleaded). It took so long and no one told him anything for so long he thought they'd died and sat there with his head in his hands wondering how he'd tell me. Me? I came round to excruciating pain (no numbness from an epidural). Morphine makes me sick and although I told them this they gave it to me anyway and I dry-retched all day (nil by mouth from midnight so nothing to puke up ) which was agony. I felt like I was dying. The anaethetist apologised to my husband in the corridor for things going wrong but no one debriefed me or explained what we'd missed that morning; no one gave us the details of our babies birth which just added to the trauma. Instead they 'forgot' to give me the blood transfusion (marked it as needed in my notes but never gave it to me) which caused post natal healing issues from chronic anaemia.

Worse experience ever. I had banging PND/PTSD and spent the first year of their birth totally traumatised with flashbacks (sweats in the supermarket when I heard the checkout beeps as it reminded me of the machines in HDU...). In the end I got CBT counselling and a notes debriefing with my hospital that helped but I'm terrified of having another baby by caesarean. I know they save lives on a daily basis but mine was horrendous.

i had one last week ,after my planned homebirth didnt go to plan ! it was an emergency and truly terrifying ,never had any kind of surgery before . Had two normal births before aswell ,so totally unexpected . But we are both safe and well ,which i guess is all that ever counts

by the way the 'we are both safe and well ' comment is the mantra im using to get me by at the moment . I can imagine how bloody annoying that would be if i hadnt gone through it .

I had one after a home birth that went a bit tits up and I had to be transferred after an hour or pushing and dropped heartbeat. They examined me on arrival and there was muconium so they decided not to wait and gave me a ga. I was bloody relieved by this point and no problems during or after.