Hi,
Wondering if anyone is or has been the same and have some advice. I've always been squeamish but have gotten so much worse in pregnancy! I'm fine with having injections/bloods taking as long as I don't look but faint if I see someone with a horrible wound or if someone talks in detail about something medical. I'm okay with reading/watching hospital stuff but not if someone else is taking about it.
I'm also massively afraid of vaginal birth! So, I've fainted several times in this pregnancy, some times just at random and other times when someone's been talking about birth/what's going on in the body or I've been thinking about birth. I went to a class about managing SPD and managed to faint 10 minutes in! It was really hot in the room and that combined with talking about the pelvis and changes in the body just sent me right to the floor.
I'm massively afraid of being made to have a vaginal birth as I don't have any medical issues that requires me to have a C-section and I've now gotten so squeamish that I can't seem to set a foot in a hospital/doctors office without feeling faint/sick or actually fainting. I know I would most likely faint if I get an elective C-section and they do the spinal/epidural but I still want the section as I'm so terrified of vaginal birth and am now picturing myself fainting throughout too.
Has anyone experienced similar or have any words of advice?