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September 2017 Moms
Sprite2012
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The topic of Csections
Sprite2012
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I saw the VBAC thread, but thought maybe we could discuss the other route to take.
Are you planning a csection? Did you have a previous csection(s)? What's your reasoning?
Are you planning a csection? Did you have a previous csection(s)? What's your reasoning?
Re: The topic of Csections
Born May 25, 2016
Angel Baby January 20th, 2017
Baby #2 Due December 6th 2017
DD born 04/28/2002
Married DH 03/25/2017
1st MMC 08/13/2016 2nd MMC 02/14/2017
BFP 06/16/17 Rainbow DS Born 02/05/2018
This will be my FOURTH c-section. My first was an emergency (cord wrapped around his neck), and the subsequent babies were born via repeat c-section (RCS).
With my 2nd child, he came a couple days before the RCS was scheduled, so I was in active labor when they performed the c-section. It was my worse delivery.
However, my last baby stayed in the oven until the RCS, and it was my best delivery by far!
I had an *unplanned* csection with my first. I was 18 hours in and wasn't progressing and epidural stopped working. In retrospect, I wish I would have asked them to re-do the epidural and keep forging on... but at that point I was exhausted, in pain, and ready for it to be over.
I had complications from my csection. The third day I was home after delivering DD, I woke up with some mild back pain, that quickly escalated after a couple hours and turned into a horrible situation. DH rushed me our local hospital (thankfully he works from home and we lived 10 minutes away at the time... longest 10 min ride EVER! We should have called 911) and after a couple CAT scans and ultrasounds, I had an infected pelvic hematoma. Good times. So I delivered DD at a different hospital so the local hospital talked to my doctor who ordered me to be transferred back to her care at other hospital, and then the short end of it -- I had surgery where they made a hole in my lower abdomen and put a tube in to drain the infection from my uterus to a bag outside my body. I stayed in the hospital for a week and once discharged I had the drain for about a month (that I later lovingly referred to as my blood bag, because it literally was a blood bag hanging outside my body that I had to drain/flush daily).
So that experience really sucked. I asked my OB about VBAC and she feels that my pelvis will not support a vaginal birth but if my heart was really set on it, I could try. But she felt 80% sure that it wouldn't work. I changed my insurance from PPO to HMO, so I have to go to a new OB so when I have my appt on 2/2, i'll see what she says. I don't really know what to do, to be honest.
Married to David 3/22/14
Started TTC again October 2016
BFP on 1/6/17!
June Siggy Challenge: Workout
Mind if I ask about your experience?
i had a really hard time with PPD because I thought birth was this beautiful thing that happened a certain way but I was naive and dumb and I had a hard time coping with what happened. I'm terrified to go through anything like it again.
ETA: mobile bump ate my post.
I think I'll probably feel better when Thursday comes and I can actually talk to my new OB about all of this, I'm sure she'll understand and have some suggestions. She came reccomended from DH's aunt who has had six babies, I really hope I like her. I'm going to want to meet their anesthesiologist too and interview them lol!
I hope you have a better experience this time.
Then I asked her not to touch me (especially during contractions) and she did anyway.
It was awful
I've heard many friends that have had great experiences with their c-sections. Also a side note, if you have a RCS (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm going off of what my friends had) you'll most likely not have to go under general anesthesia, if that's the route you end up taking. A friend of mine had an emergency c-section bc of preeclampsia, she and her baby almost died and she was under General. Anyway, with her 2nd, it was a RCS and everything went so smoothly.
Good luck meeting your new OB!
@ashley2824 I'm worried about going with a RCS because I'm scared if they try to do an epidural or like a spinal it's going to turn out bad like the first time and I'll be able to feel everything or get more nerve damage or something. The first anesthesiologist said I have a "narrow epidural space" so he had a hard time placing it, but he hit my spine a few times after he causes the initial nerve damage. Having to sit there hunched over not moving while in labor and being poked over and over was terrifying!
I had good medical care, other than the fact that the OB who delivered my baby came back to visit me my second stay at the hospital and the first thing she said when she sat at the edge of my bed was "what did you do to yourself that caused this?" Are you effing kidding me?? Like I did this to myself??? It sounded an awful lot like she was afraid I was going to lawyer up and have her investigated. And then she went on to say that I should consider not having anymore children, where I would later ask my OB why should would have said that and my OB looked appalled and said that I am completely capable of having more children.
My fear is that my body is going to "fail" me again and that I'll get another infection and be hospitalized again afterwards. The first time around it was at Easter and I was alone in the hospital, even though DH and my mom would bring my DD up every day to see me. I think matters felt worse because I was a new mom, extremely hormonal and heartbroken because I couldn't hold DD very long because I was so drugged out on dilaudid. And then I couldn't breastfeed so I was just pumping and dumping and I just felt like a failure.
I can relate to part of your experience in the sense that in retrospect I would have done some things differently too. I felt like I failed because I ended up begging my doctor for the c-section. It wasn't an emergency or life or death or anything. I had only dilated to a 5 and the nerve damage made it feel like my left leg was being ripped out of my body. I was actually screaming and I was freaking the doctors out really bad so that's why they kept trying to pump me with drugs because nothing was working. Then when I came out of the OR after two hours I didn't even hold DS until the next day because I was too drugged up too. When I got home I felt like a failure for a looong time, I think I developed PPA/PPD, I started having panic attacks and nightmares and I was always so anxious about all things baby related that my chest always felt tight and I always cried around bedtime because I was so scared and I started asking DH if we made a mistake and if we should have waited to have a baby and gen I felt horrible because I didn't know why I felt that way........ It was not fun.
Are you going to the same OB or a new one? Have you talked to them yet? I haven't talked to mine but I think when I can sit down and talk with her about everything I'll feel a little better.
So I switched my insurance from PPO to HMO at the start of the new year. I knew going with HMO that my OBGYN, who I've gone to for 11 years, that they didn't take HMO, only PPO. However, DH and I had been trying for a year and a half to get pregnant and I didn't think I was going to be able to get pregnant (we had decided not to explore cause of infertility). And then BAM, on Dec 28, I got the BFP. So I am going into this experience completely blind with a new practice. I am extremely insecure with this. I had my first appointment 2 weeks ago and at the appointment the doctor couldn't find the baby on their ultrasound machine and long story short she was convinced it was a miscarriage or ectopic, and after further testing, radiology found the baby no problem. Talk about starting off on a pretty shitty foot at this new practice. However the doc was very interested in my csection debacle and seemed genuinely concerned about making sure they do their best for it not to happen again. There are 7 doctors at this practice so hopefully I feel good as I continue to meet the rest.
My delivery with DD was at one of the best hospitals here in Chicago that I conveniently worked at at the time, so I knew I was in great hands. At my hospitalization with the complications, I threw my "hey I need a little bit of privacy since I work here" right out the window and invited anyone and everyone in on my care. This time I am at a community hospital that is rated well, but i'm nervous that I won't get the same care as my former hospital.
When I hear friends (or people in general) think c-section is the easier route my eyes roll so far in the back of my head.
It sounds like a lot of us had issues with the emergency C-sections because they were emergencies. Any maybe a planned surgery will avoid some of those issues? I plan on discussing all of the complications I had along the way and ensuring they will not happen if I have a RSC.
I was induced at 41 weeks, endured 12 hours of the balloon thing, then pictocin, then breaking water, and I never got past 4 cm. I was super swollen from the epidural and was at the MAX for pitocin so when I finally went in for surgery I had major bleeding issues. My uterus would not contract, I lost 2 liters of blood in surgery and was passing out while my baby was being pulled out. It was terrible. I got an infection after as well, maybe from the catheter, or from the surgery because I was open for so long. They don't know.
Overall, not ideal but my OB said that my body likely won't support a VBAC so we will schedule. I think since I won't have to deal with pictocin for days and an epidural for days that my delivery will actually be kind of nice. Positive thinking over here!
Im sorry your new OB didn't follow with your insurance change! That sucks
I laugh so hard when people say that c-sections are easier. Like what planet did you come from? Any way you have a baby is hard. Vaginal or otherwise, you are still ejecting a baby from your body. C sections are a different pain than vaginal birth for sure but it's still hard! And I still had to go through twelve hours of hellish labor before mine! People can be so dumb sometimes.