I have had two c/s - one emergency - 45 mins of labour, 9cm dilated, baby was footling breech, her APGARS were 4 and 8. She didn't cry immediately but her birth was very traumatic for us both. My c/s scar was also incredibly numb and I had so much pain after her birth (including bruising all along my c/s scar).

The other c/s I had was 'elective' (I didn't want it but that's a story for another thread) - everything was calmer and done so much better. Baby was born with APGARS 9 and 9 and I think because they had the time to do everything properly, I had no where near as much pain, no bruising and I had more feeling on the skin below my tummy button than I had in the 18 months since my first c/s. DH reckons now that my scar is also much much neater and not as jagged looking as the first time they sewed me up.

I hated having a second c/s but it has left my body better healed and more neatly sewed back together so all is not entirely lost and having a scheduled one is far less traumatic for me and the baby than an emergency one was.