Ok, a friend of mine suffered a 3rd degree tear with her boy about 18 months ago.

She's now about 6 weeks off having her next baby.

After her DS's birth she was told she'd need a c/s for any future children.
So she went in about 2 weeks ago to talk about the date for her c/s, thinking she had no choice & the mw told her if she wanted to she could birth naturally.

Yesterday she went to see her ob/gyn to talk about this & was 99% comfortable with a vaginal birth, even though the fear of another bad tear was still there.

We've talked about it heaps & I've passed on heaps of stuff for her to read & she felt that she'd made the right decision for her.

Then the ob says she has to have a c/s. With the scar tissue she has, she could somehow end up with a hysterectomy if she was to birth vaginally.

Sounds to me this ob is quite obviously bullying her into a c/s, but I know nothing about this.

My friend has now agreed to the c/s, which of course is her choice, but I want her to be sure. Noone wants to ruin their future chances of babies, but is this even right?