Comments | vip1: Appt in which I am proven right!

vip1

Appt in which I am proven right!

Feb 12, 2007 12:36

I had a "consultation" appointment on Thursday that was basically a big waste of my time. Do we have any genetic concerns that we somehow didn't have when I was pregnant last year? Duh! The midwife gave me a grossly incorrect due date which I explained was going to be grossly incorrect, but she insisted it would still be correct. (I was an ( Read more... )

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dwchang February 12 2007, 19:10:21 UTC

All this baby talk kind of sounds scary T_T. Especially the C-section and probes T_T

evilpeopleinc February 12 2007, 20:25:36 UTC

Welcome to the world of tomorrow!!!! (aka Probulator)

vip1 February 12 2007, 23:15:22 UTC

Just wait until you're a father-to-be....then you'll really know what all goes on! :-P

Just remember to thank God every day that you aren't a woman and remember to appreciate those around you (especially your mother!)

anonymous February 13 2007, 10:31:48 UTC

Random friend of Kelley dropping in here-

C-sections SUCK. I had one. Trust me. Worse than perenial issues. Noone talks about how godawful it is to heal from one of these things. 10 months later I still have serious muscle issues. It's also far more dangerous for you and the baby (one of my friends, who had to have one, got pulmonary embolisms afterward, last year, and almost died). It's also much more difficult to breastfeed. Please, do NOT HOPE FOR A C-SECTION!!!! There isn't any financial reason for midwives to not want them- if you try to labor with them first they get paid anyway- but there IS an incentive for the doctor to do one, financially. (Trust me, I've seen the bills.)

Please educate yourself more about the C-section risks, to both you and the baby, and the difficulty in healing from one. You should NEVER WANT ONE, PERIOD!!! If you're worried about perenial things again, there are things you can do (an earlier epis., etc.) that are far, far easier to heal from than a csection.(/off soapbox)

vip1 February 13 2007, 14:26:38 UTC

I understand what you're saying. My mom had 2 C-sections and said they were much worse than her 1 V-birth. But, her V-birth was only 4 hours of labor and she also recovered very quickly from her C-sections compared to the average. I do realize that recovery will likely be much longer and slower. I have been reading everything I can find online and, just like everything else, there's good and bad stories out there ( ... )