Please don’t be afraid of a c-section. Your doctors and nurses will be keeping a close eye on you. They check your incision about 10 times a day, and you’ll know if you have any signs of an infection.

If you have to have one, just keep the area under your belly really clean and dry. This might be TMI, but I kept a maxi pad or a bunched up washcloth tucked under my remaining chub roll, to keep the skin around the incision dry.

You’ll be okay. And if you have any suspicion of an infection, call your doctor immediately.

(((((hugs)))))

I have to admit, that since I found out I am having a section soon, I have been swinging from delight at having my baby in just a few days, and dread that I have to go through surgery, with all the risks it entails. I have had major surgery twice before, and both times I had this overwhelming fear that I would die or something would happen to me. I am getting these paranoid fears again, so you are not alone.

There are major risks involved with C sections, and although vaginal birth is better, C sections often save the lives of both mother and baby. I have been told already that the baby is likely to get stuck if I try a natural birth, and he? is laying at a diagonal angle, rendering vaginal birth almost impossible for me. However this baby has to come out some way, and through the sunroof it has to be.

I have tried really hard to think positive and just focus on the good things, but it’s hard. The fear of struggling to get all this way, with something going wrong at the end is haunting me dreadfully. The best thing I can suggest is just take each day as it comes, and focus on the baby’s safe arrival. There isn’t much longer to go, and although we hear about bad things happening to people all the time, you have to remember its astonishingly rare.

I hope your friends family can find they strength they need to get through this. I feel for you.

She was able to have 4 days with her baby before she died. I’m getting more information trickling in slowly…it sounds like she went home and 4 days later died of a staph infection.

Bed rest ..ick. I will say though that they put my best friend on bed rest at the same stage for the same reasons …and after 2 days she started peeing like a broken faucet every 10 minutes and all the swelling went away. So it was crappy …but effective.

I distinctly remember having the same feeling about birth. It was the realization that somehow this child was coming out ..and I didn’t like any of the options. Too bad that xanax can’t be taken in pregnancy.

And ..the friend ..I’m so, so very sorry. Is it someone with a blog? Someone who’s family we could help supprt??