|
CandleInTheWind -> RE: Birth (1/22/2007 10:04:49 PM)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: marieToo
What was the reason for the C -section? Usually these docs give you every possible chance to deliver vaginally. But sometimes ob-gyns will automatically put you in the C-section pile even before giving you a chance, if you are a small woman.
Im quite petite, but they gave me every possible chance to have a vaginal birth. After I finally dilated, I pushed for about an hour but wasnt making any progress. My baby's head would not fit through my pelvic area. They called it "cephlometric disproportion"...which basically means that my frame was not large enough for the baby's head to fit through.
If your first one was a section due to this reason, your second one will probably be a section too. I kinda will always wonder what it would have been like to deliver vaginally. .
Talk to your doc about it and see what he/she says about your odds of having a vaginal birth. But the most important thing is just getting that baby out of your body in the best possible way for the both of you. Plus the pain meds you get after the surgery are almost enough to make it worth it.
marie actually CPD is a catch all term andit is how the cover their asses it is actually sayign that the force and the position of THIS labor isnt going to go through the pelvis at THIS time.... any changes in the labor process can change it...as little as a few years later can change the position of the pelvis..the muscle tone of the pelvic floor the strendth of the contractions and the position or the shape or the size of the head are all variables...
I actualy gave birth to a child whose head was more than 3cm larger than eth 1st the second time around...the first one was delivered via c section without even having a chance to get all the way dialated the hubby was told that baby was too large for me.... i went on to deliver my 2nd my frist vaginal with 2 pushes after 24 hours of labor but only 2 hours at the hospital both of which were spent arguing with the covering doctor that i wasnt having an elective surgeical procedure...of course i also informed him he wasnt cutting any part of my body or i could have imagine the episiotomy he would have done! turned out i didnt need one...but that is another subject
red
|
|
|
|
