A question for women who have had a c-section...?

i agree with you one hundred percent i might have to do a c section due to my last baby making me hemorriged to the point where i almost needed a transfusion. i know this is weird but could you answer my question for me thanks i would really appreciate it i asked it like eighteen minutes ago thanks and i hope god blesses you with a healthy baby

I was the one who posted the question that you linked...You got it all wrong here. I did NOT feel bad about her having to have a C section. I was simply implying that it was wrong for the nurses to be so rude to her about the situation. Many people are fine when they have c sections, a lot of them don't mind it at all. C section or vaginal, she is just lucky to have a healthy baby.

I just wanted to clear that up...

To the person who wrote saying how she was pretty much robbed of being able to have a vaginal birth, I understand how you could feel that way. I think that doctors are often too quick to call for a c section. Some women fail to realise that they can go on to have successful VBAC's because once you have had one, the doctors tend to push you in that direction for the second baby. I am sorry that you had to have a C section, I am sure it was dissappointing after wanting a vaginal birth so badly, but atleast you baby is healthy and happy :)

Not me. I was relieved when the doctor told me my pelvic bone was too little and I would more than likely have complications with a natural child birth. I remember going to my first and LAST lamaze class and walking out saying that I would want a C-Section. I don't feel any less of a woman for doing it and I wouldn't choose any other way. This was 11 years ago and I'm currently 15 weeks pregnant and my doctor already told me that it's going to be a scheduled c-seccion. I will always recommend a c-section to whoever asks my opinion.

Besides...having a c-section does not cause streching down there so you will always be tight. I know many women & their spouse complain that sex is never the same after a natural delivery and are always looking for creams to tighten.

Good luck.

I don't think that the effects came from the C-section, it was from the epidural, which is pushed as being safe. It isn't, it is stuck where the nerves can be pierced leading to psychosis in women later on. I went through a C-section and though I didn't have PPD, it was a horrible experience and since I am an all natural, feel like I failed in giving birth. Although had I been as strong then as I am now, I would have told those doctors to use the scalpels on themselves instead of me. Yes, I felt like a failure and today, 5 years later carry a scar that looks like someone knifed me on a street corner because doctor's know best. They cut me in the middle of my pubic hair, not just at the line like most people and yanked my baby back out of the canal for MONEY, because I was double insured. I was a failure, but so were they. I don't believe in suing except for extreme causes, but would have if I could have gotten their licenses revoked.

I had an unplanned C-section with my first, and after being in labor (with back labor!) it was actually a relief to have it done. I did not feel like a failure at all. I will have a planned C-section in 1 1/2 months with my second. I do wish I could have had a natural birth, but it was done for the health of the baby who was stressing.

I had an unplanned c-section... I was in labor for a very long time, overdue and my cervix wouldn't open so they decided it was time to get him out! I dont have any bad feeling about the section, it had to be done and I'm okay with that. I dont feel it was as bad as people made it out to be, I had no pain during the surgery and the recovery was quick! The most pain was before the section, 29 hours of contractions, terrible! And I didn't expirience depression or feel bad about not delivery vaginally, I'm now pregnant with #2 and going to have a vbac as I am qualified, hopefully all goes well with this delivery, but as far as my section it was not that bad and it was more of a relief knowing my baby was out, safe and healthy, no regrets!

I had an unplanned c section and I didnt feel bad at all because I went through 2 days of labor with no medicine trying to bring my son into this world with little to no progress. Afterward I was really sore for close to a week and I am now prego with no. 2 which I will probably have to have another and I am ok with it.

C-sections do damage the uterus in that the muscle has been cut back by capacity of and had to heal. Scar tissue makes uterine rupture with next pregnancies more effective probably, and there are different health disadvantages to boot. it can be like having any surgical treatment repeatedly and once more effective... it will be troublesome on your body. for most females, VBAC is way safer than a repeat c-section. notwithstanding, that's getting troublesome to discover an OB who will do a VBAC notwithstanding, because juries have a tendency to award damages on what's *not* executed quite than what *is* executed, regardless of what the quite clincal data is for disadvantages, regardless of the actual incontrovertible reality that some midwives will nevertheless do it. once you're in touch in gaining information of more effective about VBAC, look up the global Cesarean understanding community. To Jas: 30% of toddlers have the cord wrapped around the neck -- it isn't in itself a rationalization for the toddler to be taken out surgically.

My 2nd baby was a unplanned c-section .. an it was nothing like that .. not at all. I didn't feel robbed , or like a failure. Sometimes C-sections are a safety thing, my girl was breech 2 days before her due date. I would rather have a Happy healthy baby via -C-section , then nothing.

this is my first child and i have been so fearful of what will happen during surgery...in our family, we dont dialate properly as you mentioned in your linked answer and have to have C-sections. my fear is the going under part, i have always just made it thru the pain with just a shot while at the dentist, even teh laughing gas scares me lol

After reading your answer from teh given link, i feel much better, IT IS your mind state at the time that gets you thru it. and you are right almost everyone puts a negative spin on it...oh you dont want that blah blah blah but if you have to have it theres no choice so just make the best of it.

thanks for your cheerful perspective, i gratefully appreciate it!

Everyother c-section question i read isnt very helpful just negative and i read these to try to find out more info on the goings on of the whole thing...

should i post a question later about C-sections, would you please answer and give me more info on how/what exactly they do to you? i am still a little curious what will happen to me...THANK YOU!

Vaginal delivery first time, emergency C-section second time. I did realize how easy vaginal delivery recovery was in comparison (and how you didn't have to walk bent over afterwards with a vaginal delivery!) but come on, if it is an emergency situation, why would you feel like a failure? Your child is safe. What's more important, your feeling of self-imagined fulfillfment or that your baby is safe? In fact, you are fulfilled...you carried and sustained the baby for 9 months either way!