15th October 2008

C-Section Date Scheduled

I know Melina’s due date, by c-section - which is about 1 week and a half before her official due date.  Think sometime the week of Thanksgiving.  I’m scared, yet excited.  I’ve seen some c-section videos - ugh - it’ll make you want to lose your cookies if you see the cut made into the stomach and uterus.  What women go through to have children is amazing!  Natural, induced or c-section - childbirth is not an easy thing and is something to be respected.  I’m admittedly nervous about this, mostly because I had a really tough surgery and recovery about two years ago for fibroids.  They will go through the same incision in the tummy.  The doctor says it is typically easier to have a c-sec then a myomyectomy, which is what I had two years ago.  I had some complications and am quite frankly nervous about having these again, or something similar - and knowing I have a child to take care of simultaneously. 

I am interested in the little things about having Melina brought to me right after she’s taken out of the womb, and that she’s beside me, hopefully doesn’t need to go to NIC-U.  I’m learning from doulas what’s possible and what’s not.

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