Questions & Answers

I know how you feel. With my daughter, I was so against having a c-section and wanted to go naturally, not be induced and well none of that happened for me. I ended up with a c-section as well and I also felt like a failure for a while after (maybe 2 weeks?) because I didn't labor naturally when everyone else in my family had. But, I got over it and realized that it doesn't make you less of a woman having a csection. Your doctor definitely should NOT have done what he did - that was inappropriate. Know that you are an awesome mama who did what she had to in order to get her baby into this world safe :) Hang in there!

If there's one thing I have learned it's that you can't plan labor. I planned on laboring at home as long as possible, going pain med free, no pitocin, using the tub for pain relief, walking around as much as possible and having a vaginal birth. I only got 1 out of those 6 lol. I ended up having my water break a week early, having to spend my whole 22 hour labor at the hospital in bed, couldnt use the tub due to water breaking, couldn't walk around much, didn't progress past 2cm so had to start pitocin and caved and got the epidural because pitocin sucks! Dr probably should have been more sensitive and not made you feel bad about getting the csection but all in all you did what you had to do and you're definitely not a failure! I felt kind of bummed about how it all went down but I got over it eventually.