Once upon a time, C-sections were recommended as the safest way to deliver for diabetics. Now a days, they encourage vaginal births as the first option for diabetics. Yay!
I am proud to announce that I had two c-sections. My first pregnancy was not an elective surgery due to our daughter being breeched. At the time, we were offered to have the external cephalic version (ie. a dr manually turning baby around- ouch), but declined. This procedure did not guarantee our baby would turn and would extremely painful.
Our second pregnancy was an elective c-section. Initially, choosing a second c-section was a difficult choice, because I felt this underlying pressure to try for a vaginal birth after c-section (VBAC) not only from medical professionals but from me. I put pressure on myself to have a VBAC because the recovery would be easier with a toddler. Well, I assumed it would be. The one thing i can impart is, nothing is easy in life. Nothing! The pressure I imposed on myself was really surrounding the stigma of birth choices. I mean, it really isn’t anyone’s business on why they chose surgery. I have never heard someone question why someone chose a vaginal birth. Some women cannot have vaginal births and some just don’t want to. That is their right, in the end its your body, your choice.