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Making decisions about birth after caesareanArrow
Aged 31-35
Interview 20  

Interview 20

Age at Interview: 31
Background: University lecturer with one daughter aged fifteen months. Living with partner, who works as a postman. Ethnic background: White British (Scottish).
Brief outline:Went 8 days overdue with 1st child, laboured for 48 hours. Had epidural and then emergency CS when child became distressed. Easy recovery but felt wrong about having planned CS with 2nd child. Considered it during labour but persevered and had vaginal birth assisted by forceps.


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She thinks health professionals need to allow women sufficient time to discuss their options. Hospital appointments often can feel rushed.

 



And what message would you give to health professionals who, who provide the information to women making this decision?

I think to be honest that... I mean, the best thing probably is that, is to be able to spend time discussing it with somebody, if that's what they want. I mean, that's probably what's at the biggest, well, apart from money, I think that's probably what's at the highest premium in healthcare is time. You know, time to spend with, with your patients and I think particularly with things like ante-natal clinics where you're coming in to have your blood pressure done and things like that, there's often a big, you know, there's often a lot of people to get through. We're quite lucky here because there's not that many, you know, it's not particularly densely populated area, so the midwives are always quite happy to chat to you, but I think you are always aware that there's somebody else in the waiting room, you know, so …
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