I used to think a c section was simple and easy but I found out the opposite is true. It's harder and takes your body longer to recover. Sometimes the cut leaks or whatever those women say where they were cut open and sewn back up. So I hoped I wouldn't need to get one and I wanted a vaginal delivery instead. I didn't even need to get one thank god and the delivery went well.
I think lot of women are dense about this and need to do their research like I did. I hope I will never have to have one. My mom should have had a c section with both my brother and I for a medical reason. I almost died because of it and my brother got stuck and they were going to either cut a bone in his shoulder to get him out and his arm be paralyzed for life or cut a bone in my mother's pelvis and that would mean she can't have kids again. But he popped right out luckily when mom just kept pushing and my dad pushing on her stomach. Those were both rare cases she had twice but was lucky each time. And I had an easy labor and delivery and my baby was a week before his due date when he was born while my brother and I went about ten days past our due dates when we were born.
But I sure would rather be sore in my pelvis area than in my stomach area. And I didn't feel anything at all when my baby came out because of the epidural. But I still felt contractions but not when he came out. The contractions just felt like really bad constipation and menstrual cramps except the pain was a lot more severe than normal period cramps and when you're constipated. I wish all deliveries be like that, same as labor. I was just lucky they hit me in the right spot for the epidural so it worked well on me and I had the baby in seven hours after I arrived at the hospital. I did tore too and it was just a little but I didn't feel a thing down there when they sewed me up. I didn't need anything cut down there either. No forceps either. I didn't even get post partum depression. Doesn't that still happen even with a c section? I didn't resent my child either. I was so happy to have him I didn't even care if I tore or if I swelled down there or if it hurt to walk or move around or when I wiped down there so I had to dab. The pain wasn't that bad really. I just walked slower and I felt like an old woman because of the way I had to stand up or sit down and me walking slower. But I sure never wanted anything stuck up there like my husband's penis or my fingers or a tampon (which I was told not do have up there anyway) I didn't even want that birth control thing they can stick in your uterus. I was terrified for a while. I was afraid of pain was why. I didn't even want to look down there either but I look normal down there. Husband checked and then I eventually checked. Only thing I cared about was my boobs. They got so big when they were engorged. Then they got smaller again when it ended. I totally freaked out. My husband didn't understand so I told him just imagine going to bed and waking up as a woman, wouldn't you freak out too? I go to bed and wake up with Dolly Parton boobs.
But then again there are horror stories about vaginal deliveries so you can't win.
17 Jun 2011, 2:53 am
