C Sections?
I’m in the U.K. and honestly feel the maternity care has been absolutely awful… I’m now 36 weeks and grateful for any thoughts!
Since day one I’ve been saying I want a C Section. I do feel this has been largely fobbed off with the line ‘we talk about birth later’ but I’ve also never seen the same midwife twice and only met my consultant once, so it’s been easy to do!
Today I saw a doctor (not my consultant) who said “what can I do to persuade you not to do this” because of the risks, but then couldn’t weigh the risks up with me and go over the differences between vaginal and C section risks *for me* as opposed to on a very generic basis. He’s apparently booking me in for a week’s time with the advice “no more sitting on the fence”. I wasn’t sitting on any fences until you told me you were desperate to convince me not to have a C!
He’s asked that specialist midwives contact me but that apparently isn’t likely to happen within the next week. I don’t have a midwife who knows me I can speak to. There is no mechanism to ask him or any other doctor any questions, and even if I could, they just don’t know the answers and aren’t interested in answering anyway.
I just feel completely at a loss - has anyone thought about a C vs vaginal birth? Originally I wanted a C as I understood it to be safer for baby.