Good luck Keira in making your decision.

Just remember to base your decision on the advice of your medical team not on the advice of people posting their own personal opinions on a website. While it is great to hear others' opinions, at the end of the day, you have to be happy with the choice you have made. Every woman who has birthed a baby whether via c-section (elective or non-elective) or vaginal birth should be proud of the fact that they have grown another human being and brought them into the world...even if for a short time as has happened with some of the ladies here who were brave enough to tell their stories. IMHO from that moment on, the focus should be on raising a healthy, happy and secure human being. No-one (strangers, relatives, whoever) should continue to harp on about whether or not that baby was brought into the world via surgery or otherwise. Once you become a parent, how you birthed that child doesn't seem so important (assuming all went well no matter what choice you made) as you have so much to focus on in getting used to your new life and adjusting to all the little stages that your little one goes through.

Good luck Keira. I'm sorry an innocent question has probably added to the confusion that you were already feeling.