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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It is called the "Coccyx' bone[/b] and generally breaks when baby is very large.  Happened to a friends of mine whose son had a birth weight of almost 13 lbs.  This is a no brainer--go for c-section.  [b]Broken brones take longer to heal.[/b]  [/quote]

Broken bones may take longer to heal, but c-sections have more significant risks.  [/quote]

I, too, broke my tailbone delivering my first baby, which still ended up in a c-section after 2.5 hours of pushing.   It still hurts me today.  TEN YEARS LATER.  No kidding.  That's a risk I would avoid no matter what.  I was in excruciating pain for the first year.  I could hardly sit and it made taking care of my baby very difficult.  Getting up from sitting would bring me to tears each time.  It was that awful.  My son is about to turn 10 and I still cannot sit on a hard surface for very long without terrible pain when I go to stand up.

I went on to have two more children.  I considered VBAC with my second until my OB told me that it was likely that I would re-break my tailbone and at that moment, without hesitation, I scheduled a c-section.  I would tell anyone to do the same, and if you had it happen to you, you would, too.[/quote]

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