My dd was born in Feb this year by emergency c-section.

I was induced at 39+2 weeks because my BP was high. Everything was fine until about 6 hours later when they noticed her heartbeat kept dropping with each contraction.

The dr.'s tried everything. They even drew blood from her head 3x's in between contractions! It was a horrible experience!

Anyways, a long story made short, they wheeled me into the OR, knocked me out, kicked hubby out of OR and took her out. Hubby held her a few minutes later and I came round about 1.5 hours after she was born.

We bonded no problem. I healed nicely but my experience with labour was far worse than the c-section.

I'm just wondering what everyone else thinks. Would you have another one? I would.

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I went thru 13-14 hours of labor. I did have a epi which I was thankful that I did but anyhoos, I was pushing for 3-4 hour and stinker decied that he was going to turn his head so they didn't rush my but they also didn't take their sweet @ss time either. I was push on the way to the or. My DH got to go in to or after they turned my epi back up and i couldn't feel a thing from my boobs and down. Well I was so darn tired from the pushing I took a half of a hour nap. LOL
All I really remeber was that my doc asked if I can feel her poking me or whatever. Her pulling on my. this part maybe tmi but I also could feel someone put there hand up were the sun don't shine and push on my son's head. He was stuck in birth canal. thats when he deced he wasn't ready lol. Then I remeber her stapleing up my tummy. Oh I remeber Ben crying too. Benjamin Allen was born on March, 7th, 2008 at 3:35 a.m eastern time. Then I woke up around 3:40ish and was up untill 12ish then I passed out for along time. lol

Would I do it again?
In a heartbeat. I would rather know Ben or my other children are going to be safe. Yes i would love to push my next one out. But I'm kind of leaning towards another C-section for the next one. But I don't know. I'll tell you when that time comes. Which won't be for at least two years lol.

My daughter was born on Oct 7th 2005. I was in labor for 13 hours pushed for 2, she was loosing in distress and loosing heart beat so off to get a c-section I went. I had an epidural originally, and had a bad reaction that caused my back to spasm-worse pain than contrations. I could feel the surgery, so they had to give me massive doses of what seemed like everything. I was so high and exhausted from labour and pushing I pretty much didn't care I had a child. It pissed me off. I was sewn up and was too tired and agin too high to breast feed, care about breast feeding or bonding. The recovery was painful, but quick, after about 3 days I could get up and down fairly easily. I dont think it was the c-section that hurt the immediate bonding, but the massive amounts of narcotics and a nursing staff that wouldn't take the baby so we could sleep at all. I am trying to get pregnant again and I am scared to have another experience like this and hope I can have a vaginal birth, but know it's not likely.

I'm with you on that. With my first daughter I had an emergency C-section because I was not progressing and was in labor to long. The second time around I opted for a schedule c-section. I healed quickly. Honestly I perfer it. Now with Baby #3 I will deliver by c-section