Unmedicated c/s by choice?

Echowysp · August 2010

There's a lady on my pregnancy board who is so against getting an epidural that she said she won't even get one for a c/s and would probably opt to go unmedicated.

I can't even imagine taking being sliced open raw over a pin prick to the spine. I mean, I get not wanting one for a vaginal birth, I'm shooting for that, but for surgery?

Indifferent

soontobe05 · August 2010

Ummmmm do they even do that?! That is CRAZY.

miss.jess · August 2010

Um, NO. I bet the doctors would have to do it no matter what. I can't imagine she could keep quiet or still enough during the procedure for them to do it safely. It is one thing to breath through contractions, it is totally different when someone is cutting you open.

Leila'sMommy · August 2010

OMG. That is the dumbest thing I've heard all day. Can't WAIT to hear if she goes through with it.

Coleslawcat · August 2010

I don't think any hospital or doctor will allow that. She would likely be given the option to get general anesthesia rather than a spinal or epidural, but I can't imagine they would allow her to skip anesthesia all together.

caeliesmom · August 2010

It's one thing to say you would go unmedicated for a c/s it' s another to follow through with it, they would probably put her under general anesthesia if she truly refused.

DEBBIE33CASEY · August 2010

I can't imagine being the doctor forced to slice her open, while she's screaming from the pain.... I think that would really complicate the birth experience and the dr could too easily get distracted and make a simple mistake.

But that does NOT sound like a birth experience I'd like to take. Bring on the epi! Lol

Cytina · August 2010

Would the hospital have to allow that? That's crazy... I guess they would in the long run, right? I'm sure she'll have to sign 3 inches of paperwork relieving them of all liability, etc. She's insane.

DesignsOnYou · August 2010

That would be medically impossible and never an option. What an idiotic thing to say.

Shayna0182 · August 2010

That makes me sick to think about. Hopefully, her doctor won't hear of that and force her to have medication.

jbl126 · August 2010

A c/s is major surgery so I cannot imagine a dr that would go through with it. Or a hospital that would even take on that liability.

DeadPoetSocietyFan · August 2010

PLEASE POST A LINK

ohfour · August 2010

They would probably end up knocking her out haha.

sevans1975 · August 2010

That reminds me of an episode of Scrubs...not a c/s, but this woman was having some kind of abdominal area surgery and wanted to be hypnotized. Turk was the surgeon and he started the surgery and all was well...until she "snapped out of it" and was screaming.

YIKES!!!

Disneygeek77 · August 2010

She must have been exaggerating or being a drama llama. That simply isn't possible.

Mrs.Hizzo · August 2010

There's no way a hospital would allow that. It would be incredibly dangerous, I would think. Can you imagine all the involuntary movement she would probably make, and with a scalpel an inch away from her baby? She sounds really clueless.

erino&chrish · August 2010

LMFAO at this one. I had a c/s. Good luck to her-no doctor will do that. I'd imagine you'd go into shock and convulse or something like that if you felt the pain of having your abs and ute cut open, making a proper c/s impossible. And LMFA more.....

ctab · August 2010

She is an idiot, and no doctor or hospital worth their salt would allow it.

mamamoos · August 2010

sevans1975:

That reminds me of an episode of Scrubs...not a c/s, but this woman was having some kind of abdominal area surgery and wanted to be hypnotized. Turk was the surgeon and he started the surgery and all was well...until she "snapped out of it" and was screaming.

YIKES!!!

this is EXACTLY what i thought of!

Matkinson08 · August 2010

She can chose not to get one but they will tell her that she will have to go completely under (meds through her IV) if it comes to the point that she needs a c-section.

She's a nutjob though if she thinks that any hospital or doctor would take that risk.

erino&chrish · August 2010

DeadPoetSocietyFan:
PLEASE POST A LINK

THIS

Symharmony · August 2010

What a moron! It's a liability issue, and no doctor or hospital would allow that. Why is she so opposed to the epidural? Is she afraid of needles?

sunnyday016 · August 2010

No doc in the world would perform an unmedicated c-section. Not even an option.

amber_tynan · August 2010

She's a big fat liar.

macchiatto · August 2010

I heard of someone who had one once (now I forget why--I think it was a crash C-section and there was no time) and it sounds horrifying.

DarthNBJenni · August 2010

Eh, just give her a stick of wood to bite down on

Caroline&Stephen · August 2010

Is she crazy? I have a relative who had a unmedicated c-section (not by choice) & she is dealing with post-traumatic stress from it. She had to be rushed to the O.R. & on the way there her IV got stuck to something & pulled out of her arm. The baby was delivered before they could put in a new IV & knock her out. She said the pain was so intense that her body was doing crazy involuntary movements.

When I had my own c-section (that was completely medicated) they ended up knocking me out for a short time after my DD was born because I kept grabbing at the curtian. I have no idea what made me do this.

It's a safety issue & I doubt any hospital would ever allow this.

Echowysp · August 2010

DeadPoetSocietyFan:
PLEASE POST A LINK

It's not the OP, but about 1/2 way down.

https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/41320223.aspx

Quiksilver620 · August 2010

I don't think a hospital or doctor would be allowed to do that

violetvirgo · August 2010

she's an idiot. no doctor (or hospital) would allow that. her options are birth vaginally, die or have the baby die. really....that's it. well....i guess she could cut the baby out herself, but yeah....

tarebear9891 · August 2010

She is absolutely, freaking insane. I had an un-medicated c-section with my first(not really by choice.) After being in labor for 12 hours and having my baby's head pretty much pushed out I had a placental abruption. My epidural never worked. They rushed me to the OR and gave me the option to wait for the anesthesiologist to knock me out or get the baby out with me feeling it because he couldn't breathe. I opted to have him delivered. No one would go through what I did willingly and I still get nightmares about it. I could feel everything and my husband could hear me from the waiting room. (I did get knocked out with anesthesia after they got the baby out). She is nuts.

Echowysp · August 2010

tarebear9891:
She is absolutely, freaking insane. I had an un-medicated c-section with my first(not really by choice. After being in labor for 12 hours and my epidural never worked and having my baby's head pretty much pushed out I had a placental abruption. They rushed my to the OR and gave me the option to wait for the anesthesiologist to knock me out or get the baby out with me feeling it because he couldn't breathe. I opted to have him taken out. No one would go through what I did willingly and I still get nightmares about it. I could feel everything and my husband could hear me from the waiting room. (I did get knocked out with anesthesia after they got the baby out). She is nuts.

Oh my god. I can't even imagine. I'm so sorry that happened to you.

mrs. remy · August 2010

what a dumba$$.

BelleBaby · August 2010

Yeah, maybe for the first second or two that the scalpel is cutting into her. I bet she'd give herself an epidural then!

Disneygeek77 · August 2010

Oh I'd love to be a fly on the wall when she tells the hospital staff she wants and unmedicated c-section.

JessiRaye · August 2010

And her response was "I'm afraid of needles in my back" or whatever. Sure, have an unmedicated c-section to avoid a needle. (Not like the OB would let her anyway.) I usually don't even comment on stuff like this but what an idiotic thing to even say. I'd love to hear the OB's reaction when she brings this up at her appointment.

jenber77 · August 2010

Echowysp:
DeadPoetSocietyFan:
PLEASE POST A LINK
It's not the OP, but about 1/2 way down.
https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/41320223.aspx

Okay, so she doesn't sound crazy, just really scared of the epi.

robbie3982 · August 2010

You guys do realize that hypnosis instead of anesthesia is something that some people choose (or have no choice if they're allergic to anesthesia) to do sometimes, right?

I haven't read her post so I don't know if she's talking about just winging it or having someone there to hypnotize her, but the latter is actually not that crazy. Here's an article from Time Magazine about it: https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867432,00.html

Alex26 · August 2010

DesignsOnYou:
That would be medically impossible and never an option. What an idiotic thing to say.

This. Plus Dr.'s have an hyppocratic oath, which states "...first do no harm". If she wants this done, it would be harmful for her, so I dont think the Dr. would do it at all.

BelleBaby · August 2010

Ok, I just read the original post from the link. She has a phobia about needles. Alright, fine. A lot of people don't like needles. But to be THAT afraid of needles that you'd take a scalpel to several layers of tissue, then getting sewn back up is just freaking nuts.

I literally felt nothing from my spinal. The anesthesiologist literally had to tell me that he had done something. And I never even saw the actual needle, so I couldn't have freaked out over it (if that was something that freaked me out).

She's either crazy or clueless about how much a c/s hurts. Even totally medicated and on pain meds AFTER they're done cutting!

tarebear9891 · August 2010

Echowysp:
tarebear9891:
She is absolutely, freaking insane. I had an un-medicated c-section with my first(not really by choice.) After being in labor for 12 hours and having my baby's head pretty much pushed out I had a placental abruption. My epidural never worked. They rushed me to the OR and gave me the option to wait for the anesthesiologist to knock me out or get the baby out with me feeling it because he couldn't breathe. I opted to have him delivered. No one would go through what I did willingly and I still get nightmares about it. I could feel everything and my husband could hear me from the waiting room. (I did get knocked out with anesthesia after they got the baby out). She is nuts.
Oh my god. I can't even imagine. I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Thank you. I really didn't mean for that to turn into a rant or a pity party but just the idea that someone would think about doing that willingly kind of upsets me. I am just going to go with she is clueless and has no idea what she is talking about.

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