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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there anything wrong that would make you not want to have a vaginal birth? A lot of us have pretty easy recoveries from a vaginal birth, but a c-section recovery is always difficult. So you’d be eliminating the best case scenario, which is pretty likely for most people, before you even begin. [/quote]

My mother had a traumatic experience which left her with incontinence, depression, and a virtually non-existent sex life after birth. Two of my friends tried vaginal births first and then ended up with emergency sections; one of them developed an infected uterus & placenta because she labored for 15 hours after her membranes ruptured and they discovered the infection during the emergency section; she ended up in the ICU for a day and was unable to see her child.

As my OB confirmed, vaginal births are good until they go bad, but when they go bad, they go really bad. My OB endorses my wish for an elective c-section, should I choose to go that way.

I guess I have PTSD by proxy from my mom and friends and would do anything to even take the slightest chance of ending up like them. I am in therapy now but my therapist is not dismissing my concerns; she agrees that the possibilities I am imagining are not guaranteed but they are not unrealistic either; so our therapy turned into her helping me find and trust my inner instinct.

I am on the fence and wanted to ask about the long-term effects of planned, scheduled, wanted c-sections, if anyone can share. [/quote]

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