I hope this is the right section for this??

I have two little girls and each time during labour I ended up with a post partum haemorage (sp?) and retained placenta.

With Olivia they couldn't get any placenta out at all and I lost 1 litre and a half of blood, ended up in surgery for the removal, with a spinal block (they said it was mangled by the time it cam out so stuck in there good!) then I ended up with 4 units of blood via blood transfusion. It really knocked it out of me!

With Alana same thing happened except i delivered (most of)the placenta and they thought they'd stopped my bleeding (which they measured to be around 1litre) but when I got up afterwards for a shower I felt a gush and lost more blood so off to theatre I went again - this time under a GA because I'd had an epi during labour but it had been disconnected. They got out the placenta - not muchleft. Luckily I didn't need any transfusions and recovery was better.

My question is - obviously I am prone to this and if/when I have a third child I highly anticipate it all happening again and am wondering if it'd be grounds for requesting a c-sec (public patient) Its really off putting knowing that after the birth of my babies I will have this horror happen to me so that I am completely, physically drained by it. I know a c-sec is surgery and recovery a lot longer but... oh, I don't know! Also, if we were to have a third child that would be IT for us, I'm also thinking of tubal ligation (only if I had a c-sec)


Anyone out there had the same experience?