The-Raven wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
The-Raven wrote:
actually Im going to alter this, the hardest thing for me is going into baby scans as everyone in the waiting room has an adoring partner gazing at them, squeezing their hand and it makes me feel such a revolting, unloved loser. I expect the thing which will be worse than that though will be going in for my caesarian on my own, that will be so frightening and lonely.
i'm sorry.
how desolate the feeling. is there no way out of the C-section type of delivery?
I just have to wait and see, my placenta is too low, there is still quite a chance it may move, Ive got ages yet so loads of time to ruminate on it and scare myself, Im really scared of c-sections and they dont let you hold the baby for ages as it takes over half an hour to be sown up.
Im full of self pity at the moment.
any decent surgeon, on a first c-section with no previous scarring/adhesions, will be able to be in and out ["skin to skin"] in a half hour, tops. when i worked in L&D that was the average surgery time for most first c-sections. there is a uterine surgical incision and staple system which cuts time drastically, they make a small uterine incision, then they insert the device and it makes the bilateral incision and seals off the incision edges simultaneously. all that is left is to sew the uterus closed once the placenta is extracted and the endometrium is policed of any remaining placental tissue. you might ask the surgeon for a "plastic closure" [careful edge-to-edge tissue approximation using close-order fine sutures]. they can also suffuse the area with a local anaesthetic during the closure to minimize post-surgical pain if they give you a general. you should discuss this with your anaesthetist/surgeon during the pre-op. the thing to remember concerning c-sections, are that they will [unless it is emergent] give you regional anesthesia [something like a spinal or epidural] and you will be awake [but numbed from the abdomen down] during the procedure, and because of this they will at least give you a good look at your newborn, and they generally won't rush the infant out unless s/he is in need of neonatal intensive care for one reason or another. the present practice is to keep you and baby together from the get-go, as much as possible. you will have matching ID bands you will both wear for the duration of your hospitalization. during your recovery you will become acquainted with your belly pillow and encouraged to walk. you will make it through alright.