Tag: planned c-section

  • The Day My Gut Feeling Saved My Baby

    —

    in

    I wasn’t supposed to go in that day. There was no appointment. No plan. Just a quiet, insistent feeling that I could not shake. A family of five – and a story worth telling from the beginning We are now a family of five. It still sounds surreal when I say it out loud. I…

  • Just Days Away: Preparing for a Planned C-Section with Three Children on My Mind

    —

    in

    Counting Down the Final Days Now there are only a few days left until our third child arrives by planned surgery. This planned C-section with three kids feels very different from everything I have experienced before. People often ask why a planned C-section. The answer is simple. Both of my previous births ended in emergency…

  • Waiting, Healing, and Hoping: Life Before a Planned C-Section

    —

    in

    The Quiet Before the Planned C-Section I’ve now had two monitoring sessions with the CTG straps, and everything feels calm and stable in my belly. So there is nothing left to do but wait. This planned C-section waiting time is strange. On one hand, everything is under control. On the other, life around me feels…

  • Fear of Another C-Section — But for Very Different Reasons This Time

    —

    in

    I have had two emergency C-sections.My daughter is four years old, my son is two. With my daughter, the pregnancy went past 42 weeks. The doctors were not willing to wait any longer. Labor was induced—twice, using different methods—over two full days. Nothing happened. At 42+1, I was taken for an emergency C-section. It was…