My beautiful birth via c-section
I've seen so many bad stories about sections, so here is mine!
As a first time mum I was really worried when the midwife told me that my baby was breech: I tried all the natural methods to turn him, but I declined ECV as it scared me that my baby had the cord twisted, so the doctor scheduled me for a c-section.
They day of the birth I wasn't particularly nervous, just wanting to meet my son! All the team (students, midwives, anesthetists, surgeon) came to introduce themselves and explain how everything was going to be. Everybody was really really nice. They put me some local anesthesia to introduce the needle in my wrist. Then they took my to theatre where I really shit myself. Of course, my husband was with me during the whole thing. They put some more local anesthesia in my back and then the spinal block, which wasn't painful, but uncomfortable. Then I started to feel tingles in my legs, although I was able to feel and move my toes. At that point I was freaking out because I thought I would feel the surgeon cuting me, but before I realised, my tummy was already open. I started feeling the pulling thing and it was scary and not nice, but again, not painful at all! Hubby started talking to me and telling me jokes to make me smile and relax and a midwife kept touching my head and updating me of what was going on. In just a few minutes the surgeon told my husband "look, look here!" And my husband took a sneaky look at the other side of the "screen". I saw his face and I knew he just met our son. Then they got the baby completely out and showed to me...I can't describe the bunch of emotions that came in that instant...I started to cry and cry (yes, I'm also crying now thinking about it 😅) and it was the most beautiful moment of my life for sure. My gorgeous baby was real and I finally could see his face!
I wasn't able to move until a few hours after the birth and I didn't walk until next day. Then I got discharged from the hospital in the evening.
Today is a week after the birth and everything has been great: I went for a little walk in day 3 and today I was able to go to the shopping center and have lunch with hubby and baby. My scar looks great and my bleeding down there stopped a couple of days ago. Oh and my milk (finally!) came in today.
If anyone wants to see some pics of the scar or anything just let me know and I'll update, as I understand that some people might feel discomfort with that kind of images.
I hope this long post is useful for some of you who fear of having a section, I can say that I loved mine! And apologies for the bad grammar, as you can tell, English is not my first language!
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