I am 4 months postpartum and let me just say I am so pissed about my c-section. I can’t get over it under it or around it. People have given me so much to consider instead but I am pissed. I called a lawyer and told them what happened and they told me that if everything I said was true then I have a case, but I have no permanent injuries so I have no case. I guess if you don’t get ripped apart by our fast and furious medical doctors then you’re fine. However mentally I’m traumatized.

My OB followed ACOG standard for pregnant women and treated a mild case of polyamniohydrosis with a c-section and the condition was diagnosed at 40 weeks. Main concern was preterm labor which she cited and I was like I’m already full term. I tried so hard to keep saying no to her medical pressure but buckled when she started using my baby’s life as justification to slice me open after a more than miserable failed induction. I wish I would have just walked out that OB office and waited for my baby to say she was ready. This being my first baby I just was not as prepared as I thought I was, and this was my one of one 😩. I just feel like I missed out on something…

Pregnant women are not patients, and should not be treated as such. Pregnancy is not a medical emergency. We’re just doing what our bodies were made to do. I was at greater risk at that hospital with so many people poking prodding and sticking things on me. I wish I knew more learned more and could have had a doula. I cut myself off from information because I started scaring myself, but I should have done more research. There was nothing wrong with me or my baby.

Then get this at my check up the surgeon says yea she was incompatible with your pelvis, yea because I was laying on my back working against gravity you idiot. Why women would ever trust a man with her body idk. They seem to come up with some really weird solutions. When did C-sections stop being emergent and more so elective? When did people start becoming so inpatient during labor? it’s a long process, it’s labor. And to the nurse midwife that broke my water at 5cm, you’re a fucking nitwit 😑 because you didn’t ask me and didn’t have consent just took advantage of having me in a difficult position. Ladies do not consent to pelvis checks and do not let them break your water at anything less than active moving bearing down unstoppable pressure, meaning that uncontrollable urge to push. Better yet just don’t get induce, either natural or emergency c-section - everything in between is not necessary at all.