Have you ever felt judged for having a cesarean?
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Oh I'm so sorry! No words. That's awful :(
Yes! Mine was under general so I remember nothing, had all sorts of comments along the way 🥴 x
Ah stuff them. Mine was an elective (due to complications from my first) and I would tell anyone to do one if they dared saying anything like that to me
Yep I am choosing a section and the grief I am getting from my Nan is a joke And comments like that I don’t get to say I ve given birth!
Mine was elective and beautiful. I heard some silly comments afterwards, but my husband's words will ever follow me: vaginal delivery moms judge cesarean ones and never the opposite because happy women don't have time to complain 🤣🤣🤣
I had a “friend” judge me which I found strange due to the trauma she and her baby went through. You’d think it’s a competition about collecting trauma, I’ve never understood why you’d judge someone for not having to go through the damage you did 🤷♀️ maybe she was triggered by my smooth recovery compared to hers.
@Sarah sadly that might actually be it 😞 I've done both now (albeit with a difficult natural birth with surgery afterwards) and I would never judge anyone for their birth choice. C sections certainly aren't the easy way out anyway!
People are going to judge every single thing you do or don’t do. I had an elective c section and people seem to think it’s somehow their business.
Had my mum and husband with me for my natural delivery which ended in an emergency section, will never forget my mums judgemental look lol. Always hurts me when i remember the way she looked at me get wheeled out. Could do a TED talk on this topic - you aren’t alone sis! Only we know what we went through, it was never the easy way out nor was there anything wrong with birthing baby that way. You have your baby and your the world to that bubba, don’t you forget that
I feel like I judge myself harder than anyone else. I actually received a ton of sympathy because the recovery is so brutal.
Yes my dad told me that my mom went thru a whole day giving birth unmedicated I shouldn’t be a bitch about it
@Cindy shit! I wouldn't have the guts to have my dad even touch my baby if he dared say something like that
@Laura like girl imagine im in the middle of contractions not dilating the epidural wore off and my dad tells me something like that 💔
@Cindy I can't even :( all the power to you to be able to talk about it. Sending love ❤️
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Not really. If they try I'll tell them, in detail, why.. they usually move on pretty quick 🫠🙃🤣
A nurse in the hospital told me that I didn't give birth two days after my C section, what an unhappy b**** 😂
I had an emergency c section so early that I wasn’t even close to labor and so I had no contractions. My grandma was all up on me about how my mom and her actually had to go through a “real birth” and how I was so lucky. Yeah no having my son super early and having him in the NICU for the first three months of his life was not lucky 🤦🏻♀️ She even said she wishes I had to have painful contractions 💀
I am very proud of my 2 sections and I refuse to be judged by anyone who hasn’t been in my shoes. That’s just coming from a place of ignorance and stupidity. So I don’t even entertain it knowing what I went through to birth BOTH of my kids. I’m super proud if it. Keep your head up, it’s no one’s business but your own.
I had one emergency under GA was to save baby's life, second was planned but a emergency at 35 weeks again to save baby I'm now pregnant with my 3rd and I'm having a planned one my first was failed induction got to 7cm and baby's heart rate dropped and he was born not breathing took them 6 minutes to bring him back around you've still given birth but if it had to be done for a medical reason or to save you or baby then no one should judge even the people who have elective csection just because they want to some women don't want to experience labour or have anxiety over complications and not been in control etc everyone is entitled to do it how they want but you've still had a baby and carried that baby
Mine was elective for no reason other than I preferred to birth that way. Anyone that gives me grief for it can blow me 😂
I’ve had people down play it.. like it wasn’t too bad but recovery is hard af and taking care of a newborn after having a c section is the hardest
Yes.... I went in to spontaneous labour at 39+3, spent 78 hours, 100% effaced and 4cm, water had gone, meconium, i was mentally and physically exhausted after not sleeping or eating for 3 days .... And i actually had women tell me "you didn't relax enough" and "you needed to educate yourself more on labour"..... I have only ever felt judged by other mums, never by anyone else. I'm going for my third section in January, and i am very much looking forward to it
Mine was also an emergency and I’ve already had a friend tell me that I didn’t even experience “real” birth 🙄