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Fertility decreases after caesarean section

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Aragon · 02/08/2005 08:57

Just found this

Interesting bit of research. I had a caesarean but was always sub-fertile anyway so it probably makes no difference to me.

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Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 15:48

Hi,
Sorry only answered part of your question. They didn't really say why they thought it happened other than it was an emergency section and when they got me to theatre I was already 8cms dilated as my labour was progressing very fast. They don't like to do sections on a womb that is already in established labour because during this time the womb is very 'irritable' and contracting so hard and when they touch the womb it contracts even more - which is why they struggled to get Izzy out and had to use forceps. I think this is why all the bleeding happened because it's such an unnatural thing to happen and the body has it's own way of doing things and having your womb sliced open with a scalpol isn't something it knows how to cope with. Anyway it was the right thing for me in the circumstances as I think we would have lost Isobel if I tried to have a natural birth. Alls well that ends well they always say.
Sarah x

starrynight · 02/08/2005 15:49

Was it a planned caesarean but you went into labour first? Or did they not realise how the baby was lying?

Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 15:51

Starry that is so kind, thank you. I wondered if you might like to have a look at this it's a lovely memorial site that my friend made for me.
Sarah x

starrynight · 02/08/2005 15:58

That is incredible! I am from Leicester and have seen some of these articles. Lovely site - very emotional and I haven't even met you. Well done

Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 16:00

Hi,
I had been in hospital in labour at 35 1/2 weeks and although I was contracting well I wasn't dilating. They complained the whole time I was in there how difficult my baby was to monitor, to cut a long story short I discharged myself as I wanted to be at home with the others and nothing was happening. The next morning my own midwife came and examined me and said that she thought the baby was breach and that was why it was so hard to monitor, they were trying to trace her heart rate on her backside! I was a bit miffed as I'd complained all along that I thought the baby was lying funny. Anyway she sent me a few days later for a scan to confirm and sure enough the scan revealed that she was an extended breach (feet in front of her face). After the scan I saw the consultant who recommended a section, I said no way did I want a section - I'd planned a home birth and if I'd got to come into hospital due to it being breach I wanted to try for a natural labour - I'd had 3 babies previously with no problems and I didn't see why I coudlnt. Well she said to go away and think about it and come back 3 days later to discuss it again. Anyway I went into labour later that evening without having made any proper decisions! The labour was very different and the pain was all in my back, I knew it was a different labour to my others. When I got to hospital they said that cos baby was breach they recommended a section and I said I didn't really want one but when she examined me she discovered that my water bag was bulging ready to pop and that there was a tiny foot in them! She said you can't deliver this way you will have to have an emergency section. Well I had to wait to go to theatre because there was an even more urgent emergency where the baby was in distress and mine wasn't which was fine with me. By the time I got to theatre I was so far advanced in labour that they panicked and said they needed to get a move on! I was really tempted to ask them to find the other foot and just pull her out as I'd had my spinal block and couldn't feel anything. Anyway good job they didn't as she had the cord so tightly round her neck.
Well it was all good fun - not the birth I'd planned but you have to be ready for the unexpected in this life - that much I've learned over the last few years.
Phew - I bet you wished you'd never asked now!
Sarah x

Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 16:01

Wow starry whereabouts? I'm in Hinckley.

starrynight · 02/08/2005 16:02

about 5 mins from Fosse Park - I was teaching in Hinckley last night!

Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 16:18

Wow My sister used to live right near Fosse Park - just off the Narborough Rd in Braunston Town!
Small world!
There will be an article in the local paper again this week as we are having an open day for our fund.
Sarah x

uwila · 02/08/2005 16:18

Where's Lisalisa? I bet she has a few things to say.

Oh Lisa.......

Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 16:20

Who's Lisa?

Moomin · 02/08/2005 16:24

Sarahx2005 - just another poster with...ahem... strong views!

Interesting report but not sure of its validity - would have to agree with much of what aloha said. BUT, we conceived dd within 4 months, had a c-section due to placenta praevia, started ttc again when dd was 15m and it took 2 years. No previous fertility or gynae issues; we were an 'unexplained secondary fertility' case. I put it down to stress mostly.

Moomin · 02/08/2005 16:25

Me and dh, that is, not me and aloha

Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 16:30

Hi,
No I said I wasn't sure about it's validity and also think it's out of date - just curious though, why do you want someone with 'strong views' to comment on this?
Sarah x

uwila · 02/08/2005 17:19

I only mentioned her because she is pregnant with what will be her 5th caesarean. I was going to leave those details for her to post. But I don't want you to think I mentioned her to bring storng views into the thread, but because she has a history of caesareans and apparently no fertility problems.

fruitful · 02/08/2005 17:37

The report doesn't actually mention fertility - just you're slightly less likely to have another baby. Presumably if the cs was an emergency after a long nasty labour then some of that will be choice? Although that might be balanced by those like me who had nice easy first births by cs instead of what a lot of people go through first time round... Although its taken me 3 years to come around to that way of thinking (was v. v. cross about the cs for a long time!).

DD1 took 9 months to conceive, DS1 took 1 month. However, the surgeon who got ds out suggested that I did not have any more (because of the way my first cs scar healed, or rather, didn't heal). So if we follow her advice, I'll be adding to the statistics (on the not having another baby cos of cs side). But we may not listen to them .

Oh good grief, he is only 5 months and I'm thinking about the next one...

fruitful · 02/08/2005 17:49

Hmm, I've just realised I wrote "ds1" and "dd1" even though I only have one of each. What is my subconcious up to, I wonder?

Sarahx2005 · 02/08/2005 18:19

ok uwila thanks for explaining It's making me very broody - keep thinking wouldn't it be great if this bleeding stops and I'm still pregnant - can't see it tho
Sarah x

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