Too small to birth naturally?

[Rainbow_Mumma]

I'm 5ft and was a size 6 when I had DS and DD1 and both of them were born vaginally with no tearing or anything as already said its all to do with the uterus and pelvis nothing to do with weight/height/size etc

[boomba]

Perhaps though she has embellished what was said because she felt she had to to justify the reasons why she elected to have a c/sect IYKWIM

Thats what I am thinking...plus this is second hand talk too...my brothers GF is friends with her and told me!

I am just sad that she might have been bullied or scared into it! Make sme want to be a doula/birth educator even more

[fionas]

It sounds a bit like Chinese whispers and yep, she may have embellished.

For instance, for this one I may CHOOSE to have a caesarean because I'm scared of the damage that a vaginal birth could do to my pelvic instability (took me 18 months to recover last time). Now, if I say this to my mum, before you know it she will have turned it into, "the doctors told Fiona she had to have a caesarean otherwise she'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life." That's what happens with secondhand stories.

[Traveller]

It is definitely to do with pelvis and not dress size. My sister has been told the same though and believes it after her first birth resulted in a c-section for maternal exhaustion after a long, posterior, labour. She is soon heading for her 3rd caesarean and will tell anyone who listens that size 4-6 women cannot birth vaginally if their baby is over 7lbs.