I am a FTM who recently had a baby. I was induced at 39 weeks due to health reasons. My baby was breeched so I had a procedure to turn the baby but it required an epidural. Too much of the epidural was pushed and I couldn’t move my body from the neck down. I couldn’t even feel my chest rise and fall when I took a breath. My heart rate and blood pressure became unstable and I was in and out of consciousness with panic from the feeling of the epidural and all that was going on. Once baby was turned properly, we proceeded with a vaginal delivery and a ballon cath was inserted and fell out at 4cm and they broke my water and started pitocin. I suffered a really bad infection in my uterus from my water being broken and stayed 4cm dilated for 12+ hrs. My labor ultimately ended in a c section where I was barely conscious because I was still fighting a brutal infection, HR/ BP/ temperature all unstable still and I lost 1 litter of blood during the c section. My birth was very traumatic and recovery hasn’t been the smoothest. My husband and I both say our baby boy is our 1 and only and we aren’t going to have any more after how everything went but everyone thinks we will change our minds after 1 year or so goes by.

Anyone else who had a traumatic birth did you want another one or did you have another one? I never want to go through what I went through again. I know that if we have a second baby that it’s not guaranteed that any of that would happen again but it’s also not certain that it wouldn’t happen again.

Has anyone ever had a late postpartum hemorrhage??? I had my c section 12 days ago and my blood had eased up and it was just a little bit. Now today I had a gush of blood it didn’t leak thru the pad and it probably filled up half the pad. It slowed down a little then I just had another gush of blood that filled up the pad but didn’t leak thru. My blood pressure was extremely low earlier it was 92/60. Am I being paranoid about a hemorrhage???

I’m 11 days PP. I’ve only gone out in public 2 times: baby first pediatrician visit and my c section inspection follow up. I’m an introvert but I also miss going out to like restaurants or shopping or whatever. There have been days I’ve felt great but husband said no to me going out since it can cause issues (he works with cancer patients and has seen people say they feel great and push themselves and causes more pain). Today I’m in pain (fire alarm went off and we smelled something burning at like 3 am. I instinctively got up quickly and grabbed our son. I think that was too much. It was just from our house getting confused because we finally turned on the heat on for the first time in months).

It gets better right with missing stuff?

last week I think Tuesday I started feeling kind of sick, stuffy nose and sore throat. fast forward to now (early Sunday morning 3am) I have a cough, no more sore throat and still stuffy nose. the cough ebs and flows but I’m scared to have my C-section Tuesday and be coughing during surgery and also after…using abs to cough and blow my nose is making me worried for recovery. this will be my 3rd csection. I go in Monday to my OB for a final NST my BP was a little high last week. any tips to get rid of this cough or has anyone been sick like this right before their surgery?

For anyone who’s had c sections back to back within a 2 year span… (2 under 2) how did it go for you? I’m 8 months pp and got surprised with a positive pregnancy test. I know my body hasn’t properly healed, but I’d like to hear of others experiences…

I’m 10 days post operation. I had a wound vac up until yesterday which I took off and disposed of at home under doctors guidance. I have an appointment Monday. But I’ve had burning and stinging since removing wound vac. And not sure if scar looks normal. There’s pink/reddish bit I’m worried about.

So worried :(

My scheduled c section is Monday…i had 5 Venefor iron infusions as my ferritin was at 9 and Hgb was 9.9. My last infusion was Aug 28 and one month later my levels were ferritin 52 and Hgb 12.7….i had my preop labs again and now weeks later my ferritin dropped to 18!!! However Hgb stayed at 12.7 thankfully. Im reading that low ferritin/iron is a postpartum hemorrhage risk?? Anyone have similar experience. Im kinda bummed my ferritin didn’t stay high after all those infusions. At least my Hgb improved.