Hi everyone,
I know this has been talked about before but I'm interested to hear some more recent stories if you don't mind sharing :)
I had a long 78 hour 1st birth which after everything ended in an emergency c section. I don't have good memories of it (the c-section) to be honest, though relief my little boy was fine :). I'd been in labour for so long I hadn't slept in days and the c-section was 11:30 at night so I was thoroughly exhausted and felt like I couldn't hold my baby in case I dropped him. It was fine as my husband was there to begin with but then they made him go home as I was on a ward where the fathers couldn't stay (I guess some kind of post surgery ward). I was getting the shakes from coming off the epidural to add to it. It was around 3am when they made him go home.
The recovery was OK - though I'm in a house with 3 flights of stairs! I do have a bit of a pouch above the scar now but I don't care much about that or the actual scar.
I'm due in April and my toddler will be 2 and a half then. I guess not going the planned c-section route would mean I'll be able to chase after him much sooner...
I forgot to mention he was 9lbs 10! At the time I was thinking "thank goodness we ended in c-section" 
my husband and his siblings were all big babies - so I've probably got no hope with this 2nd one. I was measuring normal throughout as well, they had no idea he'd be a big baby.
I seem to be in some sort of special midwife unit for women that had c-sections for their first baby - honestly this is probably to encourage us to have a normal birth to save the NHS money but maybe I'm being cynical!
I'm interested to hear your experiences and if you'd go for a elective c-section or try it naturally this time around if you were in my shoes?
Thanks for reading my ramble!
:)