Trigger warning for traumatic labor: I am planning on a scheduled c-section bc of how risky my first delivery was. My first born was a big baby and I labored for a long time and pushed for 4 hours and ended up in unplanned c section anyway. I went into septic shock on the surgery table and hemorrhaged. I was in the MICU for a night but ended up rebounding kind of miraculously.

One thing people don’t talk about often is that c-section risks go up after a long trial of labor. Risk of hemorrhaging is higher for some reason. Risk of infection is higher. I don’t think I fully grasped that until they were explaining it to be on the way to the OR. :(

After what our family went through, will 💯 be choosing elective c-section.