Should I schedule c section or try naturally
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My first birth was nowhere near as bad as yours but I did end up with a forceps delivery and episiotomy in theatre & we both ended up with sepsis. Second time around I didn’t know what to do as was so scared to do it again! However my second baby turned breach at 37 weeks and made my mind up for me to have a csection and it was the best thing ever for me. It was so chilled. My recovery was sore yes but nowhere near as sore as an episiotomy and I’m not traumatised at all I loved every minute!
You can schedule it and cancel It the day before if you want. I felt better after it was booked but planned vaginal aswell. In the end I had a section as my mental health took a bit of a turn a couple of days before. I’d decided on it due to drama with my first. It’s hard as I really didn’t want the recover with the section but planning and controlling how baby came into the world was a really lovely relaxing experience
I had a C section almost 10 months ago and the recovery was good I was walking the day after and pretty good after the fourth day. Go with your instincts, good luck! =)
Only you can know what you can handle. My first was nowhere near as bad as yours (3rd degree tear that required surgery with spinal anyway and during covid too, with some problems with poor care on the ward and struggling with breastfeeding etc afterwards too). I decided on a c section for my 2nd to avoid a further or worse tear, which I had on Monday. Honestly, my recovery has been no worse so far. In fact, I only stayed 1 night in hospital (stayed 2 with my first). Plus everything else with baby has been easier so far. A lot of the midwives I've discussed this with (I also went to a different hospital) talked about it as hopefully being a healing experience. I didn't realise that's what I was looking for, but it really has been.
I had a c section and I think it was actually not as bad as I thought it would be
I had 2 c sections, one was emergency and the other was planned. Me personally would rather the planned c section. Recovery wasn’t horrible I was walking about 4 hours after the numbness went away & felt back to normal by week 2. I was at Walmart the next day after being sent home from hospital. Good luck mama. Trust your body & instinct
C section advocate here as well i was the only one in my ntc group being open about wanting An elective and was met with judgements as all of them were planning water births and other natural things it made me doubt myself until the very last minute however as it turns out majority of those ladies ended up with emergency c sections anyway so was happy with my choice in the end and will be doing it again with my second so i will have had 2 sections in 15 months this summer…recovery was not fun but i’m grateful for my partner helping and for me personally breastfeeding was more traumatic than the actual section as baby had a tongue tie and there’s been a lot of screaming crying pain bloody nipples and mastitis 😩
I had a section and my second is booked for number 2 next month. It’s all very individual but if that was my birth story I would not be doing that again 😳 My recovery was actually really easy and no worse pain than a bad period. I took the tube home and went to Costco day 5. I had no trauma and a really calm and happy experience, like I said so nice I’m doing it again in 4 weeks.