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Originally Posted by Mabelle
im lucky. i dont scar much. I hope my muscle heals well. But the same thing can happen to women who give birth vaginally. The muscles just get really stretched. You see it all the time in tummy tucks, that they have to put the muscle back together so to speak.
one good thing about a c section, if you get a tummy tuck, they can kinda of use the same "scar" if you will. It actually gets cut away, but you know what i mean.
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I scar sooo easily! I think I'm more frightened about what birth would do to my vagina rather than my belly. Some not so great things happened when I was very young and that may contribute to my fear. Theres a lot of other factors too that play into that also.
I've seen some really good after results on tummy tuck procedures. Does anyone watch Jon & Kate Plus 8? Well I think about a year or two after giving birth to 6 kids, Kate went and got a tummy tuck and the before and afters are just freaking amazing! Now I won't expect every tummy tuck to come out that great but so far I've seen some great results. Do most woman who get tummy tucks get them after C-sections?
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Originally Posted by M.A.C. head.
My belly is fuuuuuucked up, STILL, my daughter will be 2 in a few weeks. I wouldn't blame that on the c-section completely though, I'd blame it on me being lazy LOL My stretch marks are really bad too, but I've had issues with those since puberty.
With the whole c-section vs. vaginal, I used to really believe that vaginal was the only way to go. I had a bit of a difficult pregnancy, and if I told you my labor and delivery story you'd tie your tubes up QUICK. When it all comes down to it, my daughter is a very healthy, happy and beautiful little girl. It hurt for a little while afterward, and I have flab, but I'm great! C-sections are not the devil, like some really pro vaginal people would have you think. And vaginal is not the devil either, as some must-have-epi-or-csection people might have you think LOL
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I don't think my belly would look all that hot after a C-section especially if I had a baby now. My belly right now needs A LOT of work done, I need to start hitting the stationary bike, treadmill, and do some crunches lol. I just keep stuffing my face with food cause food is yummy but never do as much phsyical activity to eat up all those excess calories haha.
Ahh, pregnancy horror stories, I've heard tons of them! Each story just sounds worst than the one before
. I've known 2 girls, one who was about a year or two younger than me and the other one was a few months older than me. They both had pretty difficult pregnancies. The girl who was younger than me had a dream the night before her delivery that she was going to bleed to death
. I guess there was a lot of tearing whenever she gave birth vaginally the next day cause she just kept on bleeding for awhile. Her second pregnancy she ended up giving a few months before her due date but I heard the baby is doing alright though. The other girl had trouble pushing the baby out once it reached the shoulders and they kept trying to get it to come out for a bit before resorting to giving her an episiotomy. All she could tell me about it was how painful and awful that was on top of being in labor and giving birth. But both of them love their babies very much and don't regret anything that happened during delivery despite the pain and trouble.
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Originally Posted by purrtykitty
I've always thought I'd opt for a C-Section because surgery is less scary to me, for some reason. I know the recovery time is longer, but that doesn't bother me. And as selfish as it might sound, I like the idea of scheduling the birth when it's convenient (not just for me, but for my family and the doctor).
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I totally get you on having it "scheduled". I hate surprises of any kind. I like knowing things for certain like when the day of my baby's due date for sure will be (unless something comes up before then and I'll have to have it a bit earlier).
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Originally Posted by Shimmer
I don't have that pooch.
I had three sections...two were elective. Vaginal birth horrifies me...and given my health situation they didn't want to risk uterine rupture anyway, so c-sections it was for me.
Easy recovery, all three of them, within a week. The strength takes a lot longer to come back after a c-section, I admit that, but otherwise, I can't complain.
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You are one lucky woman! Like I said my belly won't be looking so hot after a C-section or pregnancy probably
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Aren't uterine ruptures more likely to happen durin VBACs? My teacher told us about her C-section and how it use to be back in the day, practically impossible to do a VBAC but now there starting to allow it more depending on the woman and situation. But that it does have a bit of a higher risk with uterine ruptures.
Everyone use to think I was crazy whenever the talk of babies would come up and I would tell them that I'd completely freak out if I had to do a vaginal birth and would instead rather get a C-section done.
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Originally Posted by Ernie
I had a c section after 15 hours of labor, thank the lord. My son was 10 pounds and I'm small!
I did however walk stooped over for about 2 weeks, but not a big deal.
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I'm very tiny too and so is my mom. I would of felt so horribly bad for her if my brother and I would of weighed over the 6 lbs I think it was and some odd ounces!
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Originally Posted by *Stargazer*
I would not recommend an elective c-section to anyone. I am currently facing a future of bed rest because I am at a severe risk of a uterine rupture because I've had 3 c-sections. I will be having EVERYTHING in that region removed when this baby is delivered because I cannot possibly risk becoming pregnant again.
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Aww, I'm very sorry hun. That sounds sooo scary and I hope things will be okay. I wish the best for you during your pregnancy, delivery and recovery!
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Originally Posted by Eire3
In the hospital of my town they do C-section almost only in case of emergency or in case of problems with the baby position in the womb, health of the mother and so on and i know it's the suggested policy in every hospital, though in the end the mother is free to choose...don't know the situation in the US...
My aunt had both my cousins with c-section cause they both were in an upside down position in the womb and one of them had also the umbilical cord around his neck. She had pain both times, needed to stay in hospital several days to recover and the scar is still visible. Plus you can't breastfeed them in most of the cases.
I never heard of women who did the c-section voluntarily (though i know they exist), but if the deliver-pains scares you i think that epidural anesthesia is way better. I'm scared by pain too, and i think that when my moment to have a baby will come (hope in no less than 5 or 6 years LOL) i'll probably choose it. Years ago it was a kind of risky anesthesia, because it involves an injection in your spine, but nowadays is very popular and many women choose to do it, since you can enjoy a natural delivery without all the pain associated to it.
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Where I was born and where my mom was from in China, C-sections weren't very common unless it was absolutely necessary. They encourage vaginal birth over anything else. Though my cousin's wife ended up having a C-section done because of how big the baby was and I'm assuming had an EXTREMELY difficult time trying to give birth vaginally or else they wouldn't of made the decision to let her have the C-section.
I don't know any woman either in real life who have opted for a C-section either. Practically all of them did it vaginally and I'm just like wow..you must be some brave woman!