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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my case, because the recovery from a c-section would have had to be virtually unmedicated (very bad reaction to most opioid painkillers) and almost entirely unassisted since I delivered during COVID and my spouse had a very short parental leave.  So since I wasn’t going to have someone able to hand me the baby, take the baby after nursing, and all of the other challenges of c-section recovery, I really wanted to not have a c-section. My sisters recovery from both of her c-sections were terrible *but* she had my mother and a night nurse to help— two things that were not possible for me during pre-vaccine COVID.

This isn’t a reason c-sections are “bad” it is a reason I didn’t want one.  I know people who had scheduled c-sections because their spouses were deploying and they wanted to know on what day baby was arriving— it doesn’t make vaginal birth bad it means they didn’t want one!

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I got some kind of long term local anesthetic and orally only got ibuprofen/acetaminophen for my C section. Don't know what was in the local, maybe there was an opioid. How would they even do an epidural on you? [/quote]

The anesthesiologist used the lowest possible dose of a drug outside the family I have the worst reaction to, and put me on a strong anti-emetic and anti-histamine before the epidural was started. I got the epidural as close to pushing as possible because, had I reacted to the drug and began the traditional unstoppable projectile vomiting, and not been able to push, they might have had to put me under to do a c-section anyway (which, when I woke up, I would have had no option other than Tylenol/Advil for relief from, and all the recovery-unassisted-during-COVID issues). I was really on the fence about whether the epidural was worth the risk but it turned out well for me, and my care team had discussed the risk/benefits and possibilities long before delivery.

But— and I can’t stress this enough— this is why a c-section was bad for *me* as a patient. It has no bearing on whether a c-section is bad for anyone else. Reading this thread there are plenty of people who a c-section could be bad for, but in this thread as in real life there are people vaginal birth is bad for. I genuinely don’t think women in this area are walking into L&D and asking for elective c-sections because Kim Kardashian had one or demanding vaginal births because they’re trending on TikTok— we are a very well educated population and for the most part have well informed preferences. We just never seem to give one another the respect to assume we know what we’re talking about when it comes to our own bodies.[/quote]

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