Posts by irishmamacat

I had a scheduled c-section for relative CPD. My first pregnancy, at 39 weeks and my daughter, whilst head down from 32 weeks, wasn't engaged in my pelvis, at all, and was spinning  between OP, OT and OA at every visit (as...

My birth plan was mostly for the midwives, paediatricans and anaesthetist, because my OB and I had already discussed exactly what I wanted to happen, and how, several times, in detail, during the pregnancy, as the decision to proceed...

Had planned c/s on Thursday, home on Sunday. Stopped all painkillers by day 5. DH home for a week, then at work for a week, then home for another week- my mum helped a bit. Cooking by day 10, cleaning by day 12, driving by 3...

I put the bit in about the catheter because I know at least one person on MDC who has said that it was inserted before her epi was effective and she found that particularly traumatic.   I've had to self-catheterise or had...

I had a planned pre-labour c-section under spinal. My team were amazing.   We have a picture my husband took of my daughter half in/half out of my abdomen.   My OB delivered her straight onto my chest, and the first...

Sorry, I was trying to be specific to my experience.   It isn't minor surgery, but it isn't the kind of major surgery that requires an ICU stay and weeks of rehab. I think the reason I had a "good" recovery is because my...

But what if, for some of us, it wasn't that big a deal? Not much pain, easy recovery and didn't stop us doing any of the things we wanted to do?   What if, for some of us, it was significantly less of a deal than other...

Surely pretending that the  birth experiences of 20% of women are invalid is not a helpful jumping off point. Natural birth is an ideal, and like all ideals, for some it is unobtainable.   I have no intention of VBAC-...

My daughter was delivered onto my chest (elective C/S under spinal), the first words she heard were the central prayer of my faith, she was checked briefly, handed to DH, and then back to me in recovery where I breastfed, about 15...

Got in my car, drove home, cooked dinner and went to work a 13hr night shift after removal- so...fine.   I did take some Arthrotec the night before and morning of, which my Dr recommended- it is a combination of Diclofenac (an...