MSE Pregnancy Club 22

pigpen

Oooh the distress can delay lactation so impede breastfeeding being established.
If you end up with a GA it will also deprive you of those first few hours with your baby.

What you also have to consider with section rates is how many of those babies are very premature or sick and transferred to specialist units within the hospitals.. they will transfer from other places to a hospital with a bed in NICU as it is safer for the baby to transfer in utero.. so for example.. Leeds has a specialist heart unit (which their pct is wanting to close!) so babies who are likely to have severe heart problems and need specialist care they will be sent there.. but babies with a heart problem often need delivering by section as they cannot cope with the trauma of a vaginal birth.

Skint_Catt

There are about 8 counties that have stopped elective c-sections - could yours be one? I know mine (Worcestershire) is as tghe midwife mentioned it in passing at a previous scan.
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Kandboys

Skint_Catt wrote: »

There are about 8 counties that have stopped elective c-sections - could yours be one? I know mine (Worcestershire) is as tghe midwife mentioned it in passing at a previous scan.
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I am in Worcestershire Skint_Catt!!!!!!

Kandboys

pigpen wrote: »

Oooh the distress can delay lactation so impede breastfeeding being established.
If you end up with a GA it will also deprive you of those first few hours with your baby.

Would love to use that as one but I can't BF unfortunately. I never have any milk come in - fried eggs me! But I will put in about GA depriving me of first few hours!

Skint_Catt

Oooh are you going to the Alex or Worcs Royal then? I'm going to Worcs.

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Kira000

Oooh, beanie just had a kicking frenzy, even visible from the outside, right on my side, but weirdly high up- about 3" above where the midwife said my uterus was when i saw her yesterday! Beanie long legs strikes again eh!

Gillyx

The hospital I'm going to has a 36.2% of C Sections. That scares me so much.

Kandboys

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Oooh are you going to the Alex or Worcs Royal then? I'm going to Worcs.

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Worcs Royal! Had last 2 there and can't fault it. Apart from making c-sections 41 weeks lol!

Skint_Catt

It did look good - we went for the 'tour' a few weeks ago - the staff were lovely and the facilities looked good. Doesn't make me any less terrified though :rotfl:
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Kandboys

Gillyx wrote: »

The hospital I'm going to has a 36.2% of C Sections. That scares me so much.

But in some respects, if you do end up with one, the staff are used to them and therefore have more experience