I'm a FTM and had a csection I knew pretty much from the beginning I would have one and I was completely at peace with it by the time it happened. Now that DS is 6 months old and we are passed all the craziness and I'm healed more we have talked about future LO's (like in a few years). We have talked about delivery of another one and if I will do VBAC or another csection. For us it will probably be another csection just because of the circumstances surrounding the first.
So out of all you ladies wanting more LO's and you had a csection, have you thought about delivery with another one? Whether or not you will do VBAC or have another csection?
Re: FTM w/csections
R&K married 4.15.11. TTC #1 since 7.11.12
BFP #1 9.9.12 EDD 5.21.13 c/p 9.12.12 at 4 weeks 1 day
BFP #2 10.15.12 EDD 6.28.13 c/p 10.19.12 at 4 weeks.
BFP #3 1.19.13 EDD 10.1.13 Eleanor born 10.7.13 at 40 weeks 6 days
13dpo hcg@32, progesterone@13.7, 15dpo hcg@110, 16dpo progesterone@25.9
My blog:Urban Times in Michigan ~ My Bfp Chart
R&K married 4.15.11. TTC #1 since 7.11.12
BFP #1 9.9.12 EDD 5.21.13 c/p 9.12.12 at 4 weeks 1 day
BFP #2 10.15.12 EDD 6.28.13 c/p 10.19.12 at 4 weeks.
BFP #3 1.19.13 EDD 10.1.13 Eleanor born 10.7.13 at 40 weeks 6 days
13dpo hcg@32, progesterone@13.7, 15dpo hcg@110, 16dpo progesterone@25.9
My blog:Urban Times in Michigan ~ My Bfp Chart
I think it's all about how your first experience was and the reasoning for having the cs.
ETA: Because I didn't have an experience where I went through L&D with DD1, I wanted to at least try. Had I gone into spontaneous labor and tried pushing and had an emergency c, I would probably have just done a RCS. I wanted to experience L&D at least once.
Francesca Pearl is here! Josephine Hope is almost 3!
@deedee1017 I had no reaction to the tape, it stayed on FOREVER! I want to know why they can't make bandaids with the same adhesive so they actually stay on when you get wet. #probablysoIwillspendmoremoneyonmorebandaids
However, I did always kind of wonder if my OB wasn't gunning for a section right from the get go (she also thought he was going to be huge, he was 7#8oz), so I switched OBs. Couldn't have been happier. My 2nd OB was all for my VBAC.
Delivery was a dream. It was also really fast. I was one of the weirdos with a magical ute. I didn't really know I was in labor, but I suspected. It just didn't hurt like the first time. I had tons of false labor and walked around dilated to a 4 for weeks.
I was uncomfortable and a little achy at work, I went to my regular appt, was at a 7 and sent to L&D. The triage nurse didn't know what to do with me, I was "too happy" to seem like I was in labor. I stayed at a 7 for over an hour, so they weren't sure I was in labor, but didn't want to send me home since I was a VBAC candidate. The decision to stay or go was mine, I offered to stay for overnight monitoring. Then his heart rate dropped twice (due to descending so quickly). They checked me, since I had progressed, broke my water and less than an hour later I was nursing my baby.
@deedee1017 I didn't have a reaction to the tape, but it took FOREVER to come off, and even then I had a bunch of adhesive that wouldn't come off even with frequent rough scrubbing in the shower.
This almost exactly... over a week overdue, induced, stopped progressing at 7cm (was there for 12 or so hours), and 30 hours of labor before LO's heartrate kept dropping to end with a c/s, we will probably cut on the dotted line if I don't go into labor naturally. If they even mention inducing, they can shove it!!! That was very traumatic for me...
R&K married 4.15.11. TTC #1 since 7.11.12
BFP #1 9.9.12 EDD 5.21.13 c/p 9.12.12 at 4 weeks 1 day
BFP #2 10.15.12 EDD 6.28.13 c/p 10.19.12 at 4 weeks.
BFP #3 1.19.13 EDD 10.1.13 Eleanor born 10.7.13 at 40 weeks 6 days
13dpo hcg@32, progesterone@13.7, 15dpo hcg@110, 16dpo progesterone@25.9
My blog:Urban Times in Michigan ~ My Bfp Chart
I also had glue or liquid stitches and had no complications. I hope to have that done again. But I refused to look at my incision site for a while it was at least a week. I'm sorta ok with that stuff but not on myself.
LO was born with a 15' head and weighed 10.7!
Odds are against me that baby #2 would be smaller. And that's just disturbing.