Order of safety

[TinyPawz]

So I had my booking in appointment with hospital and met with the consultant. I have asked for a repeat section and was given the hard sell to try for vbac. One thing the consultant said that has me wondering is that in order of safety the birth should be either:

Vbac
Emcs
Elcs

That seems very odd to me that an emergency section would be deemed safer than an elective. Has anyone else be told this?

Have never heard that before in my life and I'm under an obstetrician, had a previous ELCS and will be having another one in 6 weeks.

I'd rank them

1. ELCS
2. VBAC/EMCS - I suspect there would be variables in each case that would affect the ranking but I'd generally think an EMCS would be the riskiest option for mother & baby.

I had a dr try the same line with me a few weeks back when he was trying to push me to an induction I don't want. Couldn't understand his logic either and asked if he was muddling emcs data in either elcs in which case risks make sense and if he was stripping out elcs data could I please have the stats so I could make an informed choice. He told me data was available online, I've not found it!

It's very strange isn't it. Counter intuitive. I would have assumed that emcs would be the least safest.

The only thing I can think of is that for an elcs you're not in labour. I had a lot of left over blood inside as I wasn't contracting as was not in labour. This is what brings it to mind.