Just a bad experience?

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I feel as if I had a horrible experience with my csection. I was wheeled back into the OR room to start pushing(which is normal for twin pregnancies). Dilated to a 10. Before I started, they checked and immediately had to start prepping me for a csection. Baby a wasn't head down, he never was, he was butt first.  So I had to have the csection. But I felt everything on one side,the epideral only worked on half my body. They even upped the epideral. And I still felt everything. I was giving a sedative after they pulled baby b out. I only remember meeting one of my sons. Then I passed back out. I see everyone's pictures of them wide awake and smiling with their babies. Were you all actually aware of what was going on? Is it normal to be giving a sedative during a csection? Are they really that bad or was it just a bad experience? I have a very high pain tolerance, but even this amount of pain made me pass out and start snoring after the pulled twin a out. I don't plan on having anymore children at the moment, but for future reference.

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I had a scheduled c-section August 25th. Mine went amazing!! I was awake, with my husband by my side, and after my baby was born I was so happy that I kept talking with the doctors and nurses while they were closing me!! I was very lucky I didn't have gas from all the talking!
Yours were just a bad experience, specially because it was an emergency one..

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I was so out of it. I do remember right before passing out, I heard my son cry. Then I was out. My husband and the doctors were calling my name to get me to open my eyes to see the boys when they brought them up to me. I was able to open my eyes but focusing was not possible. Then I was out again. It just sucks to not be able to experience it to the fullest. I had my daughter natural with no meds, it was exciting to have met her. I was told that with csection you are still very awake and sometimes able to pull your own child out. It sucks that we experienced emergency csection and didn't get to fully feel the excitement. I'm sure there re those who were able to. I'm very grateful that our children are ok. And I understand that these were emergency csections, but it just sucks. Thank you for the input ladies. I hope all is well with you all

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I know they gave me sedatives I don't even remember being in recovery or going to my room and I'll tell you in definitely scarred for life from mine and don't want to get pregnant again for that reason!

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I had to have an emergency csection and there was no time for them to give me another epidural so I had to be put under anesthesia. The first time I met my daughter was in the recovery room and I remember some of it but I was still so groggy and off from the anesthesia that a lot of it is just a blur. Wish I would have been able to hear her first cry or see her when she came out but oh well.

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I had a very similar experience. Not twins but after 3 hours of pushing and 50+ hours in labor they decided to do a Csection. I was passing out before the C section but also felt everything! I screamed while they were getting my baby out & then also passed out. I feel so sad I didn't get to see my baby. Ugh! How are you feeling now?

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I'm a fellow twin mom and I just posted my birth horror story! I'm so sorry you had to go through that I feel your pain! If you ever need someone to talk to I'm here

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I didn't feel anything from the neck down with mine but I was so out of it. I saw my daughter for what felt like a split second before I passed out/ fell asleep. My eyes were extremely heavy & I did all I could to stay awake & alert the whole time but it just didn't happen. I really don't remember much of anything.

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Sounds like a bad anesthesiologist. My third was horrific. I felt everything and the anesthesiologist argued with me and my husband that I didn't feel it, it was in my head. No b^#*h, I feel it! He did finally just about knock me out with ketamine. My mother actually had to leave the viewing area because my screaming upset her.

However!! My 4th and final c section was a week ago, and it was amazing. Spinal took right away, to the point where I giggled when my butt went numb! My doctor had the baby out in, literally, 4 minutes and took about 30 to cut, tie and burn my tubes, and then I was in recovery. If I had known it was gonna be that easy, I might have considered a 5th!

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It's sounds like you had a bad experience. I had an emergency c-section but had already had an epidural in so they just switched the IV and did a spinal. I was completely numb from the neck down. It was a blur but I think there is so much going on and you are so overwhelmed by it all especially with an emerg c-section you just don't have time to even get your head around it and before you know it they're down there pulling the baby out. I'm sorry you had such a horrible experience and it does take time to see the good in it all. Just remember you have your babies and if they're healthy and you're healthy that's all that matters 😊

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They gave me a sedative because my son was stuck and they had to yank him out of my pelvic bone basically. I hated it. I was numb all the way so I wouldn't have felt it, they just thought it would freak me out so they put a sedative in me immediately and because of that I barely remember seeing him and I was scared to death while I was under the sedative. I hated every second, it felt like I was dying. I couldn't feel myself breathing. I woke up and said I'm never doing this again. I want more kids but for future reference, tell them not to sedate if you don't want it

Just a bad experience?

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