Thanks Kelly for putting up that article I read it with interest. However that was not the case for me. My 1st birth was horrendous. I ended up under a GA with the episiotomy from hell. It would have been easier and kinder to do a c/s. I ended up having repair surgery (that I'm not sure even worked) in 2005 as when they sewed me back up from the epi they didn't sew my pelvic floor muscles back together . I felt then, and still do, the after effects from that 1st birth. I used to have great control of my p/f muscles and now there is nothing, also I have numb patches from the mega scarring that occurred. I'm sure a c/s would have caused much less problems for me. In saying that I went on to have 3 vag births after my 1st (no noticable difference to the sex angle though) and then a c/s due to PE. My c/s was good. Not much pain afterward and I did take it easy for the next 6 weeks but after that i was fine. I'm very well educated on v/b v's c/s but I'm still tossing up what to do with this next birth. Have many aspects to consider and not much time left lol.