When I gave birth to my ds I had a huge ammount of tearing. ie: took close to an hour to stitch up, ob told me it was "5000" stitches when I asked, was catheterised because I tore forwards not bcakwards, etc, etc.
I actually had to have reconstructive/ repair surgery 4 months after the birth due to not healing properly and lots of raised scar tissue. I was advised by my ob that if I was his own daughter, he would insist on a c-section next time as there is no guarantee i won't happen again and then they'd be trying to sew up scar tissue. (fwiw he was not a ceasar pushing ob).
Last time I had private health insurance but this time bubs will be delivered in a public hospital. I' not sure if it's be considered a "medically necessary" c-section in my case. As much as I don't want to have a c-section, I REALLY REALLY don't want to have the horrid recovery I did before.
Does anyone know if that'd be classed as "medically necessary". I'm also thinking about seeing an ob who does public obstetrics rather than a gp because of this. WDYT?