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Interview 16

Interview 16

Age at Interview: 19
Background: Bar supervisor with one son aged twenty-two months. Lives with her partner.

Brief outline:Had emergency CS after 18 hours of labour due to 1st baby's large size and awkward position. Recovery was difficult, felt low and exhausted for one month. Same problems of size and position with 2nd pregnancy, advised to have planned CS. Planned CS was much better experience.

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She thinks women need to allow themselves time to consider all options rather than just have another caesarean by default.
Print If you were to give a message to other women now who are making this decision, what do you think you would tell them? Just that everybody's different and depending on your personal circumstances and why you've had a previous section and why? Things like that. Don't just look and say, “Right, I'm going to have another [section]”. Just take time and just let yourself sort of look into things and get as much information as you can, because it does help a lot. Well, it helped me.

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