Checking In

Havent been on for a while... but I wanted to check in... All is going well... we found out a couple weeks ago our baby is going to be a girl... We decided on the name Zoe... My doctor agreed to allow me to have a C Section, as I want to make sure my mom and dad can be her for her delivery... as I know my husband will likely be passed out on the floor and I might like some company... HA.

So 16 weeks to go till I get to meet Zoe on the out side... I am so excited... and glad I waited 5 years post surgery... as I have had no WLS issues or any other so far... but it is amazing... with a first baby... although women have been doing this for well EVER... every little kick, pain, or case of Tums you go through... youd sware this is the first time its every happened to anyone!

Good Luck Ladies!

Congratulations. Why in the world would you want to have a c section unless it was absolutely medically necessary?!? Thats just crazy to me that a doctor would actually want to do that because you want convenience for your company. But hey its your recovery, more power to you.

I understand your feelings... they are many of my friends and family's feelings about it too...

I have given it much consideration, been around many people who have made both decesions... and seen the consiquences good and bad of both.  I look at it like this.

I have had an open RNY I am not foreign to abdominal recoverys. God knows one more scar isnt going to be the end of the world.   Most of the women in my family  including myself have narrow bone structure in the reigon, causeing rather difficult labors, all but 3 in the last 20 births have resulted in emergency C Sections after long and strenuous less then ideal labors...  more then a dozen of them have had to have bladder pinnings with in a few years of birth as a result. 

Besides it took me a good two years after my RNY to get perfect control of my bowels... so the last thing I want is to wear a diaper for fear of sneezing.

All humor asside.  This is likely one of the biggest life changing experiences I will ever have.  And my personality and anxiety levels do far better when I get to have a little control over the situation  I have arranged for my mother for two weeks his mother for a week and a girlfriend for a week to stay with me for any help I may require.  I wouldnt be able to do this living 800 miles from my nearest relative with out knowing when.   So putting it all together with my age, (36) evidently far past the prime of good pushing age... my husband and I agree that this is probably the best thing for us to do.  

Its surely not something I would recomend for convienence for every woman...  some women enjoy the suspence... or want to experience the even more naturally... and a month or a year after the fact I might come on here and say what ever you do avoid C Section at all cost... but from this side of it for me... It seems the right thing for me.

Hello. I certinaly understand where you are coming from and I myself will also be doing a c-section for many of the same reasons. I have researched it and talked about it a lot so I am very well informed like you of all the benifits vs risks. 

Good Luck and Keep in touch!