I had an emergency c sec, the idea of having one terrified me I was taking hypno birthing and was hoping for a drug free birth but dd had other ideas. My waters broke at 34 weeks and she was breech. It happened pretty quickly the hardest part was the spinal block. Because she was so early she went straight to the scu and into a humi crib.

I always throw up after a ga too which is unpleasant, normally I react to morphine and pethidine but I was ok with the mprphine given with the spinal block. I avoided it afterwards I has oxycontin and panedine inbetween. I didn't see dd for 12 hours I finally cracked it and the day staff took me to see her.

I was up and walking within 24hrs o couldn't drive for three weeks though and dd was in the nursery all that time so I had to rely on family.

I chose a vbac for number 2 as the no lifting and driving would have been too hard when looking after a toddler but I wasn't scared to have another c sect.