Okay so along with all the excitement of yesterday, I got a call from my Dr and she has scheduled my c-section for October 21 2009. I have mixed feelings about it. It would be nice to know exactly when the baby will be here and all, but I really do not want to deal with the recovery. It sucks! The recovery includes: a huge incision in your lower abdomen. It hurts, it's sore. You can't cough without feeling like your guts are going to fall out. And one of the side effects of the anesthesia is the need to cough! You can hardly walk to the bathroom, 20 steps away. You can't stand up straight for at least 2 weeks. That means taking care of a newborn is impossible to do alone, let alone chasing a 2 year old (who will be almost 3). You have horrible gas pains due to your intestines being pulled out of your stomach and set aside, while they find and cut open your uterus. Then they put them back where they "think" they go. While you body finds it's way back to normal you can't even breathe because the pain is so bad. Not to mention the 3 days you have to stay in the hospital, compared to the 1 after a vaginal birth. It ends up being like 4 days because you have to wait to get discharged the last day. (we left at almost 3pm that day)
So, I am hoping to get my way, and give a vaginal birth a go. I will not know until a lot later in my pregnancy. But I am hoping and praying this works out. Ugh!
If any of you that have given vaginal birth have any advice or gruesome details to share with me. Please do. I would like to know the worst of both experiances so I can feel better one way or another :o) Even if you have a story about a friend :o)
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2 comments:
wow. c-section sounds terrible.
i guess the worst part of a vaginal birth is the fact that your vagina gets riped open!!!!!!!!!! you could get lucky and not tear but i think most people end up tearing. I had a second degree tear and it wasnt pleasant. Some people get ripped open all along their tant - they get ripped from the vag all the way back to the butt hole. Imagine pooping after that?!?!?! ouchy.
yikes, i dunno rain!!! it will be super tough for you after if you have the c-section. but vaginal birth is SOOO scary to me! i guess once its over though you will be better able to care for both kids. but if you do have the c-section can rick take off work at all? ugh it makes me think back to when i had juli...how the hell did i do it?! im so glad you have rick :)
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