Elective c section after traumatic first birth

[NorthLondonMum83]

My DS is 12 months old and I'm 14 weeks pregnant. Always keen for a small gap! His birth was difficult. Long, very distressing for him and me, resulting in assured delivery. Was very, very scary and although I physically recovered well I've had nightmares and become distressed when talking about it. I'm considering an elective c section... Has anyone done the same? To be clear I would want to persuade NHS to do it really, I have private health care but not covered unless for medical reasons.

I had to have a planned CS due to placenta Previa but even if I hadn't I would have had an elcs. My experience was 40 minutes in and out, no pain or labouring for who knows how many hours. A very pleasant experience.
The recovery wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

I had a very traumatic first birth with an APH and PPH and a third degree tear. It terrified me. When I fell pregnant with ds2 elective csections weren't really an option and the doctor concluded it was still safer to deliver natural. Ds2's birth wasn't straight forward it was very long and he was back to back which resulted in assisted delivery... But the experience was so much more positive than my first and even with assisted. My 3rd and 4th births were Really amazing too and recovery was great.

My only section was 8 weeks ago and i don't think I can compare it to an elective one in the slightest. It was an emergency one due to baby arriving at 31 weeks but my placenta abrupted in labour so they rushed me to theatre at 8cm. They had to work on me for over 2hours to stop the bleeding which in that time my uterus had to be lifted out. So when i woke up i felt awful, I had to recover quicker than I should have because I already had 4 young kids at home and a baby on scbu. But yes the recovery was quite painful and a shock compared to four normal deliveries. I was driving myself upto scbu though on day 9, I'd say the first four days were the worst. But i assume my comparison is rather irrelevant because I know many people who have had elective and had lovely experiences.