5ft2 Small pelvis and birth: if you have experience birth being small what did you do? Also what was your recover from a c-section.

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I am trying to decied going in. My pelvis is very small and my baby is measuring with a slightly bigger head. Has anyone who was quite small given birth with minimal tearing in this situation. Or has anyone had a c-section and what was the recovery like? How did your body feel and did you get to muscle tone in your abs back? I am very athletic and I don't want to have problems exercising postpartum.

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I’m only 5 ft so I’m tiny but I had a natural vaginal birth and it was quick... I did have second degree tearing though but everybody is different

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I'm 5'3", very petite. I was worried about the size of the baby and having a small pelvis. My midwife assured me that your body will not make a bigger baby than you can handle (although I know this isn't always true). In my case, that ended up being true. Baby stopped growing at about 35 weeks but was healthy so they didn't induce and I went all the way to 40wk and gave birth vaginally to a healthy 6lb8oz baby.

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If I'm not mistaken you can't really know if your pelvis is narrow just by how you look - you need an MR or x-ray to determine it.

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I have 2 children both via csections.  My first was a little easier to recover from pain wise probably because I wasn’t running after a toddler too.  My second had led complications and I had more energy but more pain.  I was in pain for at least 8 weeks.

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I'm not small (5'8 and 145ish) but my baby was too big to fit through my pelvis. I had concerns all along because he was always measuring big, especially his head. My doctor dismissed my concerns though and told me it would be fine. Well after 4 hours of pushing my LO started to show signs of stress and his HR was dropping. They did an emergency csection and he was born not breathing. They got him back but he spent some time in the NICU recovering. I will be doing a csection for any future babies I have. Recovery after the csection honestly wasn't that bad. I was up walking within 24 hours. Walking as much as you can without overdoing it helped me heal faster. By the time we went home 3 days later I was moving well and in little/no pain as long as I didn't overdo it. I never needed more than tylenol and advil for pain after the csection.

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Yes I’m 5”3 with narrow hips and had a home birth with zero tears. I’ve seen videos of tiny women having 10lb babies. Your body will grow a baby the right size for you

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I'm very small 5'2" and had vaginal births with all 4 kids. Labors were different with each baby, but the pushing phase was pretty similar - all came out fairly quickly.  Heads were all different sizes, but one was over 90th percentile and I had no issues.  I had minor tearing. Each woman/baby is different.   🤷‍♀️ As for post-partum I was up and running around in less than 30 minutes after giving birth except with one birth where I had an epidural which took a couple hours to get my legs steady.

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i’m 5’2 as well. 130 lbs pre pregnancy so really not petite weight wise i guess. my daughter was 7lbs 13oz 20.5in born at 39+2 vaginally second degree tear with a few stitches that’s it. recovery honestly wasn’t that bad.

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My daughter was too big for my pelvis they tokd me this from earlier they offered a c section I declined long story short she got stuck and couldn’t come down I pushed for 4 hours she stopped breathing the doctors came in to get her out as they were prepping me for a emergency c section she was born not breathing with a broken arm from the force of them pulling her she’s now 4 tomorrow and doing well this pregnancy I’m leaning towards the c section

5ft2 Small pelvis and birth: if you have experience birth being small what did you do? Also what was your recover from a c-section.

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