Choosing a c-section without medical reason - Why did I chose to give birth this way *HONEST*, pt. 1 

My mom chose to have a c section with both my sister and I. We were also very big babies and she said it was the best decision she could’ve ever made. If I ever decide to have a baby I will definitely do the same. Thank you for sharing your experience 🥰

Thankyou for this video ,i have an elective c sec scheduled for next week ,there's no medical reason and I couldn't find any real stories of women choosing a csec birth .Even though I had decided a long time ago that c sec delivery would be the way I gave birth ,there's some strange reason the mind keeps going back and forth. This video is exactly what I needed today ❤️

Natural was a horrific experience. I suffered PTSD and still have nightmares 5 years later. My second baby was a planned C Section ❤ it was wonderful, calm, quicker recovery. Dont let midwives or OBs tell you C Sections are not positive or longer healing. Its just not true.

I want to thank you so much for this video, I'm 14 weeks with my first and already have cleared an elective c-section with my OB. There are just so many negative outcomes with traditional births these days and nobody seems to talk about this topic enough! ♥️

Just like you I knew that I wanted a c section even years before I could think of becoming pregnant one day and I was pretty much for the same reasons you mentioned. Then I moved to France where they never ever accept a c section. I spoke to my midwife and doctor. My midwife was so nice, she tried to convince me to have a natural birth but at the same time she respected my choice and I tried to convince my doctor, but not just her but the whole hospital never accepted that, and my doctor was so offended when I said to her that I wanted a c section. Finally, I did set numerous appointments with numerous doctors and could finally find a doctor in a public hospital in a smaller town, she has set my cesarean date for the next month and I am finally going to have a c section just based on my choice, now I am just a little bit worried about postpartum and the scars and strech marks. I want to tell people that the negative outcome of a natural birth are a lot more than a c section, you should do your research and you will know it.

Its amazing to learn that someone far away from me (I am in Canada) has the exact same story regarding their preference on C section. Your thought process was exactly as mine. Its nice to come across your video to know I am not the only one who feels this way about natural delivery.

"Not all designs are good" :D!! Thank you for this thought and also for sharing your thoughts, feelings and experiences about c-section and your story so naturally. I do not have any incline to natural birth either so far and I never had. It is good that we have a choice now and that we can live with this choice. I found this video yesterday and subscribed to this channel immediately. I like the tone and the funny-practical approach. Sometimes it irritates me when I see pregnancy or motherhood videos which are over-glorifying every detail in a cliché way. Also this aspects of life contain a lot of reality and everyday in them and it is good to talk about that too.

I’m going to have to have a c section in a week and a half. Long story short I had a vaginal birth with my son and I tore abnormally and never healed correctly. First 4 months I couldn’t walk without being in excruciating pain (felt every step i took I was being stabbed down there). I had 2 corrective surgeries and other procedures and it took me 10 months to recover. I’m still having on off pain but I’m able to manage it by Gods grace. It’s not what I would have chosen but it’s for my best and my husband and I are trusting in God and praying the c section will go smoothly. My advice is you need to do what’s best for you in your given situation. The most important thing is baby and mommy are ok.

Thank you for sharing this! It's true, there isn't much content for women to feel positive in their choice of an elective c section. I tried so hard to deliver my son naturally, we ended up getting infections and sent to the NICU for a week, so next time I'd like to go straight to deliver by csection. That's based on my experience and my choice. I used to care what other mama's thought about my decision but I've come to peace with myself and I know I'm just as powerful as a naturally delivering mama.

Thanks for sharing your experience!🥰 Loved to hear a different view on the C-section choice and why 💖

Hii i wanted to share my story since i dont see many people who seem to share the same. I had such a traumatic first birth with episiotomy and my baby getting stuck in my birth canal. Took half a year to recover and emotionally im still not over it. My baby boy turns 5 this year! If i ever have another baby im choosing elective cs and ive been so scared to get pregnant again. Not wanting to go through the same experience again ever. I hope they will consider it.💕👶🏻 tearing all the way down to my butt😂 again is not it lol

I was so hopping to find vid like that!!! dealing with the same problem / choice that you described :) thank you

Here in Italy they discourage C section so much for many reasons even more when you have no health conditions to request one. My gyno though recommended because my baby girl is big and because of my age there is a chance I don’t dilate properly or I go through a long labour to then end up in emergency. She managed to book the appointment for my c section and now I have a date. Like you I had my doubts because all other doctors were discouraging me and telling me terrible stories about the recovery. I trust my gyno and I stick to my decision. Also something that you don’t mention and many don’t mention is the sexual consequences you might have with vaginal birth. Lack of sexual sensitivity for yourself and your partner, loose vagina, prolapse, urinary or fecal problem. My gyno said that with c section my genitals would be intact and to be honest I want that. I want to keep having a healthy intimacy with my husband without pain, insensitivity or discomfort. Of course I am scared of c section particularly the Rico very but I am more concerned about vaginal birth and it’s consequences. My vagina, my baby, my choice

I’m so thankful for this. I’m truly truly thankful. My whole life I never wanted to get pregnant or anything. So I was terrified when I got married and of course terrified having my period be late which it was never. I got extremely sick and depressed and would feel sick to my stomach whenever I had to go get an ultrasound. It was really hard to see the baby get bigger everytime. It was really hard having people find out and then when told not to they shared it around and pasted it on t shirts and told other people and said I needed to be excited and everyone telling me how happy they were and it made me fall into a deeper depression. I quit doing most anything. I quit my job, I quit my hobbies, I was extremely suicidal and I participated in self harm. I would lay on my bed all day in a dark room for months. I only got up enough to go to the bathroom and sometimes feed the dogs. My husband had a hard time and he took over helping me with the dogs and he’d bring me food and he’d try to comfort me. He’d cry everytime he saw me hurt myself or say I just wanted things to end. Family relationships started getting bad and we had to cut people out and block people. People shamed me for having the feelings I was having. I was even physically forced out of bed by people and then I had to give up some of my dogs because it hurt seeing them not being cared for when they used to be my entire life. The thought of birth terrified me and having everyone tell me how I needed to have the experience and I needed to do it for the baby and such. I already had trauma from 2 years before when one of my dogs went through a very hard birth and had to have an emergency c section after a very hard delivery of one pup and 6 others were stuck. Then having one pass away an hour after the c section and another 2 weeks later even though I tube fed Andy mom stayed up 4 days caring for her and she just fell once she passed away because she had poured everything into this pup to keep her alive. I had freak outs and it was so hard doing the entire experience. I almost lost my baby girl because she lost so much blood during her c section since her uterus was torn. I was also up to my head in debt to pay for it. It was just a really hard time. And there was more that happened and so having everyone tell me how I needed to feel and how I needed to do things was super depressing and hard. I also lost everything. I got evicted because the dogs were barking because they missed me. I had to rehome several of them. It hurt me more seeing them not being cared for and having fun like I used to do for them. I felt like a failure and I just wanted a c section because I just wanted to be better. I was in a lot of pain all the time. Medications were not working. I also had complications and at this time I’d already lost everything and was living in an RV with no heating or bathroom or anything. Having to waddle to a plastic bag to go to the bathroom and tie it up and throw it in a garbage can and then for a while not being able to get blood pressure readings because I was shivering. Constantly being in pain. Constantly being lonely because my husband had to provide for us and worked 24/7. He also got depressed because he’d leave so early I was not awake yet and he’d come home so late I was asleep. It also hurt him to see all his family turn on him and they wanted him to divorce me because I was not normal and not happy and we were having a hard time. It’s just really hard because I just wanted a c section so I could get better and stop suffering. Finally last week I talked to someone who put me on a schedule and I can definitely relate to the feeling of just peace when you finally are gonna get what you not only want but need. I don’t think I could do birth. I know everyone kept telling me a c section recovery is hard but the pregnancy has been so hard I just want it done. I just want the feeling of the doctors taking care of it and then I can recover. Thank you so much for this video

Thank you!! I feel exactly the same way, trying to get pregnant atm and the only way I can imagine is with a caesarean, I just know it.

C section is the best way to deliver a baby.

I support you! Had natural birth when my cervical not even 10 because midwife want to prevent me from c. Then the scar in there from birth last for almost 6 months and brought me to postpartum depression as well. I’m going ask for elective c section for this time.

Thank you for this video 🙏

If it helps, Helen George (actress on Call the Midwife), had her two children via c section as after acting in a TV show BASED on labour and delivery trauma, she was paranoid about all the possible complications

Thank You for sharing this!! I want a C section as well. I’ve never felt I wanted to have a natural birth. I’m hoping the DR will allow me. I will express my concerns.

Thank you for talking about it. My husband always supported me on that desicion but I feel that when women ask me how I will give birth they are judging me if I say it will be a Csection. I can't believe why women are not supportive with the ones who prefer a Csection. I also fear V birth and I need to calm my anxiety. It was hard to convince my Doctors but they finally schedule it for me for Sept 19th. I live in Canada and here they push a lot to make you have a v birth, which I think is unfair. Some women feel like super woman when they say they didnit naturally without epidural, but I am not less woman than then for prefering a csection.

Thank youfor this

I am also sceduled for an elective c section!

Im just curious about something! Did your OB explain the risks vs benefits of a c section vs vaginal delivery ? Mine didn't and I'm now learning that the risk of placental issues like previa, accreta, increta, percreta go up significantly after every c section... the last 3 usually end in a hysterectomy (90% of the time) and/or maternal death... so that's why most providers push vaginal deliveries onto their patients especially for a first birth

I'm currently at 30Weeks and doing more research on Elective CS. Since the beginning of my pregnancy I have already set my mind on having a scheduled CS due to having PCOS and overweight. But on my 1st trim, I lost a lot of weight due to extreme nausea and vomiting and got my BMI to normal, then now had all my tests and ultrasound and all of my results came back normal which was really great and my OB is saying that my situation is very ideal for Vaginal birth. I also have workmates who are also pregnant at the same time and they'te all pushing for Vaginal Birth and whenever I tell someone that I am choosing to have elective CS they are all saying something negative against it. Now I'm getting confused and researching for people with the same ideal as me. I just don't want to push for Vaginal birth then on the process of doing it something happens and still end up having an Emergency CS.

I am absolutely terrified of natural birth, especially after experiencing the earth-shattering pain of getting an unmedicated endometrial biopsy (the nurse holding my hand during that procedure who had given natural, and had a biopsy said the pains are the same) after that experience I feel solid in knowing I will never have a natural birth

I had a C-section an emergency C-section with my first and a completely natural delivery with my second. I have to say the natural birth was easier after the fact . I should have had a C-section on my second just because my blood pressure was out of control for my delivery. I don't understand why my doctor induced me I could have had a stroke or an aneurysm. I was young though and I didn't stand up for myself and thankfully everything worked out. It's nice to know that doctors listen sometimes❤❤❤

Thank you

I dont seem the have any good options I don't want to have natural because pain, epidural is almost out of the question because I have a terrible phobia of needles like I watched a video on the process of epidural and almost threw up, and I don't want to leave a scar on my stomach

I choose cs with my second baby because my first vaginal delivery was traumatic and very painful. Actually after section i had terrible headache and that was difficult too, now pregnant third kid and i learned my lesson. I never regret choose cesarion only i regret that i choose spinal anestesia. This time i will get general anestesia.

I had 2 successful vbacs due to the fact I never wanted to go through the pain or the trauma with being cut open. I just never knew there was women that wanted the opt for a c section which for me is taboo

Hey! I was wondering how you ended up convincing your doctor to let you have an elective c-section. My doctor didn’t let me to have one, I was very desperate 😢

I’m pregnant with my first, and due to some injuries I’ve had to my lower spine and pelvis, I’m going to tell my OB I want a cesarean. I feel like it will be a better option for me personally. Thank you for this video.

My partner is a big guy... So are all the members of his family. I'm a thick girl. But so is my family.... Mostly us females and mainly on the lower body. But me plus him.... I know that's definitely a big baby already

My husband was +5 kg and his brother too... yeah, I'm getting a cs

I want a planning csection, how i can do this? Please

Yeah id rather have a basic recovery from planned c section rather than a loose, ripped up vagina, dealing with incontinence, and using poise pads when i pee everytime i laugh. If you do your homework, your c section recovery is a BREEZE, you can heal faster than a vaginal birth from my primary elective nonmedical c section experience, compared to all my friends with their conehead, broken limbed, vaginal babies 💔 and they had SO MUCH negativity to say about a c section but i showed them 😏

Many people will tell you natural unmedicated birth are beautiful, and they are but also many people will tell you that unmedicated births are overrated 😂 (personally I believe the latter)

Omg I'm 18 week im so scared to have vaginal birth because I am only seventeen and when my mom was 18 she had her first baby and she almost bleed to death so I want a c section but I've been scared to doctors will tell me I can have a c section with a Medical reason

It should not be a choice and most dr.’s will only do it if it’s medically necessary

This basically gave no information on the actual experience or recovery or anything....I hope the second video has better information. Feel like i just wasted my valuable time.

Can I ask c section delivery to my doc.

Backbone, anyone?

Id NEVER have one unless an absolute emerg e ncy. Its natural that babies enter via birth canal.