I noticed from many thread that many ladies ended up with emergency CS.

I was planning for a natural birth, & everything was going great. I was 10 days over due & was scheduled for induction. On the same morning my water broke & it was Meconium stained. Anyways, induction was unsuccessful as I only dilated 1 cm during 20 hrs with no contraction. I had to go for emergency CS & during the section they told me that the baby was still high & I wasnt in labour, & would never have a natural birth as I have narrow pelvic & hip bones.

I think this is negligence & this should have been noticed earlier, not during labour or after 20 hrs of stress & suffering!

I was really dissapointed later & couldnt even BF frm the shock. It took me 1 mnth to get over it & get back to normal.

How did u end up with an emergency CS? Did it affect u later?

i had an emergency c section after failed ventouse delivery (done in theatre), as she was in an awkward position- sunny side up, and hand by head. They said she wasnt in distress but had to be resuscitated after.
What sticks with me and my OH was me crying on the table in theatre saying sorry to him that i couldnt do it- i felt like a failure that i couldnt get my baby out and still do at times. I try not to think about the birth too much but whenever i do it makes me so upset

I was induced at 39+3 due to PIH, baby not growing since week 36 & waters leaking. After 6hrs of labour baby was in massive distress so I was taken for an emergency c-section. The more cynical part of me wonders if I was given a c-section as it would make the hospital a lot more money? I hope that was not the case though. I was really upset at having a c-section and felt so down about it, like I had failed. TBH though the whole birth experience here was really negative though x

I was affected for a long time after mine... I was getting pains at the top of my bump in the 36th week and after talking to the midwife we figured it was just stretching pains. After 4 more days of this pain (and I was still working full time) I called her and told her the pains are lasting for hours and now won't go away. We met at the hospital to just get some blood tests done. Within 2 hours of monitoring me and checking over the results with a doc, she declared I need a c-section and they have to take him out of me "right now".

I was so upset about all this because I loved being pregnant and hardly complained about any of it. Had my whole birth plan set in my mind about a natural birth etc.... but then it turned into all these nurses and doctors making decisions which I had no part of. Then within 2 hours they were taking him out of me and I was in total shock. I was too scared to bfeed for the first 24 hours because of all the drugs in my system (I don't even take tylenol for headaches except maybe once a year!) They told me later I had a severe form of pre-eclampsia called HELLP Syndrome and I could have died if I waited one more day. They had to take him out to save me. Everytime I thought about the birth for the first couple of months (which was daily) I was in tears and it still makes me sad to think about it.

I had to have an emergency C-section as no one had spotted my LO was breech until I was 8cm dialated and ready to push. They only spotted it as I had asked for an epidural as I couldnt bear the pain any longer and so they did an internal and found he wasnt in the right position...
God knows what would have happened if I hadnt wanted an epidural....
My poor OH was so worried as one min I was ready to push - he popped out to go to the loo - and the next min I was being wheeled into theatre.. he thought something had gone wrong with either the LO, me or both....

my waters broke after a sweep - which had Meconium. i didnt have any contrations so was induced with a drip. i went to 4 cms and was the same 16hrs later!! so was told had to have a section! it really upset me as i did not prepare my self for it

I ended up with an emergency C after 32 hrs of labour I was 4cm dilated when i got admitted to hospital and 17hrs later i had progressed no further! I had my waters broken 24hrs in and it had meconium in it. My LO was in distress so i ended up having a monitor clipped to his scalp and blood taken from his head (not a pleasant experience). I took no pain relief at all until i was told i needed an epidural incase i had to be sectioned (this was my worst case scenario). I was given the epidural between contarctions which were a min apart at the time. It was horrid as my body wanted to push but i was pushing against a brick wall! I was finally sectioned after 32 hard hrs and it turns out that my LO's head had popped out of my pelvis as the cord was wrapped around his neck twice and he had turned back to back. Every time i contracted he was being choked by the cord and pulled upwards, i was devastated when i found out that this had happened! If they had known this they should have got him out way before they did. My blood pressure plummeted and i lost a litre of blood too which didn't help. It was an awful experience but i am so thankful for my gorgeous little boy. Hopefully it'll be smoother next time around!

Just to add that it affected me deeply and still does. I really wanted a natural birth and was devastated that i couldn't, i still feel like a failure at times and i've blocked out parts of my labour. I figure that i'll remember when i'm ready to handle it emotionally. It was worse when my LO wouldn't latch on either, double blow. My pump has been my best friend since

I am so so sad to hear that women feel like a failure for complications that show up during delivery, like cords around the neck, kid being in the wrong position etc...Women AND babies used to die ALL the time in the past for problems like this, and still do in less developed parts of the world. Thankfully, we have c-sections to remedy these situations. Nobody (well most people) wants major surgery instead of an uncomplicated birth, but sometimes it's truly the best outcome for mother and/child. Your body did not "fail" you - it recovered from the emotional and physical trauma of major surgery to take care of the child that was born thanks to medical advances and your beautiful bodies! You are not a failure in any way shape or form (heck, what are men supposed to say - they only contributed a bit of sperm during a rather enjoyable exercise).
(as a disclosure, I had a planned section due to non-life-threatening health issues on my part, but I don't feel like a failure either, as I grew a beautiful baby boy for 9 months, and my boobies keep making him strong; as it was not an emergency, I am sure it was much less traumatic for me and my OH, though)

I had a low lying placenta so there was always a possibility I would need a section if it was covering the cervix.

Then at 26 weeks I had some bleeding, and at 28 weeks I had some more. My waters broke at 29 weeks and an hour and a half later I had a major bleed. I lost 2 pints of blood so they decided, for my own safety, they would go in and whip her out. This was done very quickly after I started bleeding and I barely had time to realise what was going on. I was under a general anesthetic.

It didn't affect be in terms of not going through labour as I already knew there was a chance. I didn't get as far as birth plans etc. I did miss being pregnant when I got home - but then Abby was in NNICU so I didn't have a baby to look after either. Emotionally I was pretty much ok with the whole thing. The only lasting sadness I have is that neither me or Mr Foo were "there" when she was born. Another thread asked if your baby cried when it was born. I don't know. We missed that moment - you know the one you have just after giving birth. I was looking forward to that. But we had so many other moments, I can live with that!

Physically, it was brutal. Recovery was hard and thank goodness I didn't have a newborn to see too, I was shattered and in a lot of pain. It was a good month before I began to feel I was on the mend - although being very anaemic didn't help!

I know some ladies feel like a failure. Mine was less about the method of delivery and more about the fact I couldn't take her to term. But at the end of it all, I produced a healthy baby, no matter how (or when!) she came into this world.

C-section be it elective or emergency is just a different kind of pain. I think some hospitals are too quick to offer it or insist on it when there are difficulties but I'd say better to be too quick to offer it than too slow.