C section will ruin my tattoo :(

[PurplePunkPrincess]

I have a large tattoo that would definitely get destroyed if I had a c section. I've got really bad spd so a small chance but unlikely to have a c section.

I'm reluctant to speak to my midwife about how un manageable the pain in just incase her or my consultant start considering a c section. I would be upset to be left with a ruined tattoo and scar.

Obviously I wouldn't want a c section for lots of reasons, but that's been discussed many times before

Please be honest about the pain, that is the only way they can treat you properly.

If you need a section then I'm sure you can find a really good tattoo artist to do something with it when you have all your children. Good luck with the birth.

To treat SPD, go and see Hector Wells, osteopath in Banbury.

I was told labour would be harder for me but it wasn't really. I knew how wide I could open my legs and they left me to it. With my second I had a home water birth and that was infinitely better.

Don't know if I'm missing something but SPD does not equal CS.

It can do in some cases, but rarely. Also a certain risk of a cs if I was to be induced, failed induction type thing. I think I'm bad enough to ask to at least be induced by due date if they can't do anything to help. I took co codamol before realising I shouldn't because I'm asthmatic but it didn't help the pain anyway!

I can't afford to see anyone private at the moment and already seen the physio offered, which has been of no help really.

I don't know whether or not to call the physio again or speak to my mw or gp!?

I haven't even got a scar from my CS - so maybe you'll be the same?

'Honestly- get over yourself.

It's a tattoo. You need your hips to walk. Don't fuck about with them for the sake of a tattoo.

It must be very, very low to be in the same place as a c-section scar anyway.'

This sounds soooo snotty and judgemental. Whats with the final sentence aswell, its as if your making a snide and bitchy reference to the position of her tattoo 'it must be very, very low' as if that implies something about her character.

I think many people without tattoos need to get over themselves, they are the ones who often judge and act superior about the fact they havnt got any. Each to their own, and I only have a small tattoo on my foot, I wouldnt have a large one or one on my stomach or anywhere else significant for numerous reasons but that doesnt mean I have the right to be sarky and judgemental to women that would.

Ooohhhh yes, clearly you are a HUSSY to allow a tattoo artist anywhere near your pudenda .

22honey I agree.

Just another one to add that my CS scar is very low, almost invisible 9 months on and I too have no overhang and no stretch marks. I was v fidgety when they were sewing me up, as I hadn't seen/held my son yet and I was v impatient as you can imagine, but they were insistent on doing a good job and now I'm glad they did. You'd never be able to tell I'd had the caesarian without a very close look.

Part of the reason I had it there was incase I ever regretted it, even in a bikini it's not on show unless I was wearing low rise, which I wouldn't. But I was quite young when I had it done originally and didn't want one on my backside. Could have been worse!

It took 5 hours in total, so I think I'm entitled to feel a little reluctant to have a major procedure done if it's not necessary and would probably make me feel insecure about my body. But luckily, it is unlikely and thanks to a few helpful posters I don't think it would cause as much damage as I had have assumed.

Women are allowed to feel concerned about how pregnancy and childbirth will affect their body, I don't see how this is that different!

I have a friend who is a tattoo artist, lady came in and had her whole ladygarden shaved and tattood with beautiful tiny intricate patterns. It looked amazing. Why judge others for where and what they choose to put on their bodies, I am sure that the judgers aint snow white are they?

Punk my lovely, get through yer pregnancy and try not to worry. Might be completely foundless and if you do end up having a section, get the scar touched up or incorporated into your tat. The scar is just another mark of what you have achieved in your life. Sort of like a natural tattoo!

My god, some of you are nasty, snide cows.

I don't think it's nasty to point out that the health of your hips and pelvic girdle will be with you lifelong and it's something you do NOT want to knacker if it's avoidable. Damage done by SPD can last beyond pregnancy for some unfortunate women. It's extremely important to manage that as best as you can. A tattoo can be amended. Your hips can't (without surgery). Hips first, art second.

There are some ridiculous comments on here from the martyrs who think that the soul purpose of a woman's body is to dedicate it to children then never care about it again as long as it is draped in Boden

My cousin has a star tattooed on her wrist. She broke her wrist and had to have a plate inserted. The realignment is awful, very noticably out.

If the worst comes to it make very good friends immediately with the midwives and surgical team. Get them on side then 'joke' about challenging them to make the scar blend in :-)

I agree with everything Mrs said. My own dd has a tattoo so there's no judgements from me. Simply the fact that the OP's and baby's welfare MUST come first. A tattoo doesn't matter in comparison and can be easily fixed.

There is a difference between pointing out the importance of the baby's health (if you must -- the OP has made it clear she is fully aware of that) and making smug, judgemental comments about 'tramp stamps' and implying that the OP cares more about her tattoo than her baby.

I'm surprised that that difference doesn't seem obvious.

Agree with Toby. Op has been needlessly judged for having a tattoo and for where it is.

I'm sure op is planning to put her tattoo above the baby's welfare.

Or maybe she isn't and you are judgemental wombats?

Tickle I know it is ridiculous.

Pregnant women are adults able to prioritise! When we say 'vain' things lile "I hope I don't get to fat" no one thinks we're going to starve the baby, I moan my clexane injections bruise/scar me but I'm not going to stop taking them. Women worry about C section scars all the time on MN (pregnancy and childbirth threads)... no one thinks they're going to freebirth or anything!
I honestly think that some posters had a subconscious link between tattoos and perhaps being reckless/young/rebel ... but they've mis-applied it here and acted like the OP is unable to prioritise because it's a tattoo.

Had she said "I hate scars, worried about my C section scar" I genuinely think reactions would give her more credit.