Thanks Ally for starting this thread, I had a caesar for a few reasons but bottom line it was a personal decision made by myself that I knew I would of struggled thru a labour long or short.
I get no pain during labour no contraction pain, this may sound wonderful but when you don't know what is happening to your body. I had to travel 100kms to the hospital and truthfully the only knowledge would be a head appearing in my legs.
I had very traumatic deliveries not painful but emotionally with the first 2 girls. One I delivered a stillborn buzzing a nurse who showed up 30-45 minutes later as a change of shift. After they realised that I was alone with the baby it was very traumatic trying to tug placentas out and so uncaring. I was never told by the obst that I would prob deliver the baby. So it was a shock when she did come out.
My second birth all tho I was never left alone due to the first. For the first week I was attached to a IV and my head was on the floor and my feet to the ceiling ( pretty picture). I did have time to process this as I was in having an ultrasound and the baby was in the S position in the birth canal with me 9 cm dilated. My obst tugged with my foot on his shoulder and him in the "tug of war" position until I heard sllllluuuchhhhh. That is pretty much the sound of a cord snapping inside you sounds like. He then tried to manually remove it and after 20 min took me to theatre.
I was scared....not scared of pain. The fear of losing another baby, the fear of everything going wrong, the fear of unknown.
I suppose having a c-sect has all these aliments as well, I had transfusions as my placental post was cut during the first incision. Eliza was a GD baby and ended up ngt for 2 weeks she was also delivered at 37 weeks. So ideally she didn't have the best start to life.
But I will do it again. Maybe if I could deliever closer to home maybe if GD doesn't become such an issue, maybe with alot of counselling I might be able, but who is not to say I will freak when the time comes.
Good luck Ally I hope your childs birth is a wonderful experience
Bec