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Making decisions about birth after caesareanArrow
Aged 36-39
Interview 12  

Interview 12

Age at Interview: 37
Background: Nurse with one daughter aged two. Husband is an engineer. Ethnic background: White Irish. Played by an actor.
Brief outline:Keen on vaginal birth with 1st child, felt she lost control at hospital, had various interventions and emergency CS. Decided to have VBAC with 2nd child against consultant's advice, but supported by doula and midwife. Very pleased with unassisted birth.


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Having been told that her baby was large, she would have liked to receive better information and support to prepare for his birth. Played by an actor.

 



Can you remember the kind of information that you wanted when you were pregnant the first time?

…Not really. Everything really, I suppose [laughs]. A lot of things, I read an awful lot… 

And what information did you get, did you get everything… or some of it?

Some of it, I didn't read it in as much detail as I have done. 

So in what ways could it have been better, the information provision in your first pregnancy? 

I'd say now in my second pregnancy as well, possibly not as medicalised, possibly the fact that when I was told that I was having a large baby, ways of dealing with it. Maybe perineal massage, you know, to avoid episiotomies. The likelihood of the pain being uncomfortable if the position of the child was wrong, um… other ways of managing it. And psychological support rather than it being completely labeled as someone who's having a large baby… and therefore a potential difficulty.
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