PP'd have given some great advice. Also Look up a mother / baby friendly caesarean on Google or youtube.
Hospital staff will tell you how they usually do things. This is based on a combination of medical evidence as well as their policies, procedures, routines and traditions. If you want something different to 'standard procedure' there is no reason you can't educate them to do it differently. Some parts of surgery are necessary for the health and safety of the mother and baby and some parts are done just out of tradition ('this is how we always do it'), for example, skin to skin contact immediately following a caesarean birth is not typically the 'done thing' in Australian hospitals, as babies are whisked off to be weighed, measured and cleaned. This doesn't mean that it is the better way, or the safer way of doing it just because that is what is typically done.
Good luck with everything! I attempted a vaginal birth of a single breech baby, and ended up with a c section as baby was not descending, I hope your babies are more cooperative than mine was!
Oh, Amanda, I wish you the best in your researchings!
If close to the date they really put the pressure on and you need to look at the c-section scenario you will be all worded up and be able to have a birth plan that still respects what you want to have happen right afterwards, so that you have a beautiful birth.
Let the doctors' words wash over you, do your own research and go easy on yourself, please xxx
(you may not recognise my new username, and if you don't I'm the Junie who did HypnoBirthing )
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