A week tomorrow I'm due to have an ELCS and I'm rapidly questioning this decision.
In May 2010 I was induced at 40+9 and had a 3a tear. No forceps or ventouse. I was stitched in theatre immediately and told that the "3rd degree but was minimal". Stitches never healed. Three months later I went for a full restitch under GA and whilst under the consultant did a minor rectocele repair.
Fast forward to this pregnancy. I've been adamant I wanted a section, still scarred from the carnage of the last birth (also had PPH and MROP). I've discussed it with a consultant three times who has supported my decision and the consultant who did the repair surgery wrote in my discharge letter that a section should be granted.
But now, with 8 days to go I'm really questioning it. I'm petrified of the op, I mean totally and perhaps irrationally paralysed by fear. What would you all do? Try a vaginal birth with a very strict and concrete birth plan for if things show that tearing again is inevitable? Have the ELCS?
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A week to go and doubting my decision :-(
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Tea1Sugar · 07/04/2014 19:48
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