My big skite

I had a call from my MW this afternoon asking if it would be OK to film my elective on Tuesday. Cool aye!! it might make me famous lol

It kinda makes it a little bit better if i fail my VBAC journey, so what ever will be, will be. When ever it happens; its going to be a special day regardless!!

hehe please give us a bit more hope, but then i wont be filmed & famous!! Cutting it fine aint I?

I actually just watched a breeched baby born by CS on you tube which interested me as I never saw mine. IF i ever have another and have to have a ceasar I so want to film mine too... Once you gt over the gorre stuff it will be a very special thing to have and watch.

Oh I also had a friend who video'd hers and offered me to watch hers before I had my ceasar - shes had 3 ceasars. i didn't watch it though.

Oh wow!! That video was amazing, thanks for sharing

Two Blondinis wrote: just waiting for the video to download - is it really an hour long?

I only watched it to about 15 mins, by then the baby was out

I just saw it! (up until 15mins) It's was weird/beautiful!

Did anyone else sit there going "ohhh, eeeee, ahhhh" when they were cutting and pulling apart the incision? lol

I was a bit shocked at how rough they were with the baby but I just they have to be aye?

I wanna find a head down CS now

It was a bit eww at first & i thought they looked they they were going to dislocate the babes shoulders & stuff

My babe is head down & here is Brae's first photo emergency c-sec, head down (looks like they did some strange things to his legs aye??)

I understand where you are coming from Gen - But in my case I definitely don't agree that my baby was "taken from me".

I carried her for 9mths, laboured as best I could and when it all went wrong the surgery saved her life. I feel that the surgeon helped me to deliver her and I don't think I had anything taken away from me because of it. Perhaps it was due to my amazing support people or just my frame of mind.

With #2, if I do go down the Elective CS road, then I will still feel the same - that the surgeon helped me and bubs to start our lives in the best possible way.

This is just MY OPINION (so don't read it if you don't want to as I know a lot of people will disagree), but I don't think the method of birth is as important as some people make us believe. I know my daughter arrived the best/safest way for us and I've never had any issues with bonding (had it drumed into us at Antenatal class that *ALL* CS mums take ages to bond to their baby for the exact reason you gave). I think it is more important that I carried her for 9 months, grew her from a tiny speck and have looked after her the best I could for the past year and will continue to do so for many many years to come. To me the birth is the shortest event in your whole lives together, so I choose not to put too much emphasis on it.
**This isn't a rant at anyone at all, I just feel very strongly about this**


I agree that VBs are best for some, but certainly not all.

I hope you get your VB when the time comes

CONGRATULATIONS! Can't wait to see the photos, well done! Hope the filming went well too - when do you get to see it?

Here is a photo of Kalyx seconds old (unfortunately the spotlights on my guts-can you see his bum in the background)


Kalyx minutes old

These are a few my DP took in theater

Am looking forward to getting my disk in the mail of photos from the hospital. Unfortunately they only took what they called subsequential still photos rather than a video but apparently they are really good- & it will go toward a good cause for training surgeons etc.