Oh to be a Celebrity!

Hmmm well I had a 2.5 hour labour!! And I wouldn't say it was a dream labour, was way too fast for me. Although, apart from having a wee bit of gas, I felt fine afterwards, and was transfered to another hospital about 4 hours later. And I am not even a celebrity, ok, was once when we fell in the river, and was on TV3 news! ha ha

I don't think I would want to be a celebrity anyway -- imagine your whole life splashed in the tabloids all the time. Bleah. I'd never be able to go to the supermarket in my track pants, let alone tell the world I'm having a C-section because I don't want to face the pain. I feel a bit bad for J-Lo -- all the flak she's going to get no matter what she does. I think it was Kate Winslet who admitted a few years back that she'd actually had a C-section with her first child's birth, although she had lied and told the public that she did it vaginally.

peachy wrote: Just a question but am I the only one that had a fantastic recovery from my c section and that was after a 27 hour labour with no drugs, then a failed ventouse, I was well keen for a c section when they told me I was up for one! I thought my c section was relatively easy and most people commented about how well I was so soon after and they were quite surprised?!

In all reality I had a pretty good recovery too...but I still look at my friends who walked into the ward as opposed to being wheeled in on a bed and who left the hospital the next day...and I wish it was me. Compared to them a c-section was rotten.

Katherine...don't get me wrong, I'm all for them when they are necessary...but I just don't like the celebs who assume that a c-section is easier than a VB when that's not always the case. I think it does get forgotten that a c-section is major abdominal surgery and there is nothing easy about that.

Peachy, my C-section recovery was a dream! I was walking kind of easily the day after and there wasn't too much pain. 5 days after it I was only on panadol and that was only occasionaly. That said, the c section itself was awful!

Nah no worries :o) glad your c-section experience was ok peachy

I very much doubt that she said it. A c/s is hardly painfree and she will have some of the best docs in the world looking after her, I doubt they would be telling her that having a c/s is a breeze. And even if she has chosen to have one for "non-medical" reasons who gives a crap, its her body and her baby(ies) let her do what she likes.

Peachy I also had a really good recovery, I was out with my dogs again the first week and driving again by week three and throwing my pram in and out of my boot. Had to keep reminding myself to take it easy. I didn't use the morphine, found it had no effect and by the second day I had stopped taking the voltaran(sp?) and the codeine. Something made me puke violently and continuously less than 24 hours after having the surgery so I refused to take any more drugs (didn't feel like I needed them anyway) apart from the one to stop me puking and the anti clotting jab which was another pleasant part of the c/s.
I didn't have great ABs but my job is manual and I do quite a lot of heavy lifting so that may have helped.

I didn't think the recovery was too bad. I came out of hospital 5 days after having Rhyley and went and sat thru Brookes dramam play for 2 hours and not too bad. What I didn't like about my c section and the reason why i would choose a VB is when I had my first 2 as soon as baby was out they were placed on me I got to hold cuddle coo and ahhh over them - check their fingers and toes and everything else - I saw them testing apgars and weighing etc... after rhyley a blanket was dropped - i know I looked but can't totally remember seeing him (lucky DH took photo to remind me) then blanket back up baby gone, I heard crying and dh got to go over to him, I heard more crying (mind this was probably from me this time LOL) and still no baby to see. DH got to bring Rhyley over to see me breifly but I couldnt hold my baby or cuddle. Then Midwife and DH 'took off' with MY baby and it felt like an eternity before I got to see him again.when in the recovery room 20 mins later, They then placed him in my arms but I was shaking so much from the drugs I couldn't hold him properly. I actually didn't feel like rhyley was my baby - could they had swapped him???( this was my silly thought) Then after all visitors had gone and it was Just me and rhyley I couldn't move - when he cried I couldn't do antying to comfort him cause i couldn't reach him. It wasn't till 1am the lovely midwife put him to sleep in bed with me (puttin the bed sides up) He cried almost all night cause we couldn't get comfortable to feed him so he had troble (he later was quite hard to breast feed - which I think he was slightly tongue tied) anyway I don't think i bonded with rhyley till after i had got up and walked ot the shower the next mornign and could look after my baby myself.... sorry long spile but didn't anyone else feel this way? Just after I had first two I could do everythign for them and the fed great (apart from when josh got jaundice really bad)

Sorry for the novel just wanted to esplain why i would choose a VB. (if I had the choice - Rhyley was breeched so had to have a c section)

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I hated that I didn't even know my baby was alive! My c section took 3 times as long as it should and Jack didn't cry right away. They didn't show him to me, and I couldn't see him at all after he was out. As easy as my recovery was, I have a workmate that has had both and she also said VB was much easier, and so much better to recover from.

What every Angelina goes with, I just hope she made an informed decision

I had a great c section and if we ever had another child (which we aren't planning to) then i would go elective, simply because the complications that led to this one are likely to recur and I would prefer to do the c section with out the 36+ hour induction and labout time!

As for celebs, well, i think most of what is written about them are rubbish. Chances are she visited the ob who reccomended c setion for health reasons but becasue she doesn't run around telling the world what is happening up her vjj they have to make it up.