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Making decisions about birth after caesareanArrow
Aged 36-39
Interview 29  

Interview 29

Age at Interview: 38
Background: Manager with two children aged three and four. Husband is an electrician. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:1st child delivered with forceps and ventouse. Had bad tear, lost lots of blood. Planned caesarean with 2nd child 16 months later on advice of doctors. Struggled to decide how to deliver 3rd child, pessimistic about her chance of having VBAC, feels planned CS is the safer option.


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She does not think there is much point making a birth plan for a planned caesarean. It's more important to have her husband there to support her on the day.

 



And have you made a birth plan with this pregnancy?

I was asked by the… I can't… I think I was asked by the midwife at the GP about doing a birth plan but there was nothing really much to say about it. I think the way I see birth plans, whether its right or wrong is for the first one it was quite detailed and it was would you want intervention, would you want this, would you want that and I didn't, I said I didn't really see the point in doing for a caesarean because it's not, I don't see it as the same.

And how do you think your husband feels now about pending …?

[Laughs] It's hard to say, I mean he's happy. I mean there's absolutely no question of him not coming you know he's come to every appointment and everything so he's been very supportive. And on the actual day, if its anything like last time I had… I don't think… I needed him there, I needed to have somebody there that I knew so you know it's helpful.

And what about feeding this time, have you thought that far ahead?

I'll just try breastfeeding again, if it works, it works.
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