[NancyBrooke]

I had my daughter at the ripe (!) old age of 37, and 37 when I had the last one! 1 and done, as they say. No C-section here, just a lot of drugs.

The only thing I am sure of about pregnancy and delivery is it will not be what you expect, so best to be informed but not expectant ( ) if you can walk that tight-rope.

There was actually a discussion on kids, pregnancy etc. elsewhere in the forum but looking back I can't find it.

[Moralanqua]

Neither could I so im asking again.

Now, at 37, was there extra njections etc?

[BittenBuggy]

/l

[SilverMoonLady]

23 with my first, 24 (almost 25) with my twins.. and hubby claims that is *all* (secretly hoping for daughter #2 in a few years).

Both deliveries standard, though doped to the gills for the boys (standard operating procedure for multiple births here in Maryland).

I have been told (since it was a possibility with the boys) that C-sections, especially planned ones, are very safe nowadays, in fact they don't even put you all the way out, just an epidural or a block on the lower half; they let dads scrub in and be there beside you; recovery is longer than standard birth, but the way they do it now, barring other complications, it is possible to deliver standard after a planned C-section.

BB, planning a C-section, or just dreading its possibility?

[BittenBuggy]

/l

[SilverMoonLady]

I've heard they do a "bikini cut" nowadays that you can't see when wearing, well, a bikini... Not that I've ever been caught in one...

*shows off her decidedly hobbity physique*

[NancyBrooke]

[artanisoflorien]

I was 35 with my first and only. But I didn't plan it that way. It took seven years of trying, including two years of fertility treatment, abdominial surgery to remove a tumor, and one miscarriage before he finally arrived. He was actually conceived once we stopped trying and started considering adoption. But he was absolutely worth the wait and very-much-wanted when he was born. To further complicated matters, he was born with a heart defect resulting from Down Syndrome. He had surgery at 3 months to repair his heart, and he's a healthy, happy, wonderful little one-year-old boy (as of last Sunday) now. But, I'm wandering

As a result of the previous abdominal surgery, my doctor insisted that I have a C-section. It wasn't too bad, plus I was expecting it. I had the same incision done when I had the tumor removed, and I have to say, it was much harder to recover the first time than the second...weird...I thought it would be the other way around. It may have motivated me to get up and going faster the second time since I had a little baby I needed to look after.

I was awake during the C-section, and it wasn't that bad. I loved that I actually got to see my son right after he was born. It was actually worse, once he had been born and they were closing me back up. It was pretty uncomfortable at that point...I think the epidural actually started to wear off. I'm notorious for being resistant to pain killers and anesthesia. Anyway, they just kept injecting more stuff through the epidural line, and eventually, I went to sleep. I woke up in recovery and it was all over.

[Hathor]

This is all sounding rather scary.

Kids, I think, just aren't for me. I'm dreadful with them anyway.

(Oh, and according to the stories Mum tells, C-sections are evil and terrible. Or they were in the early 80s! I imagine medicine has moved on somewhat since then...)

[Andreth]

[Aerin]

I don't have children yet, I want em. We are putting good vibes toward the idea right no (meaning we're not in a desperate hurry yet) and we will see what happens.

I was a Pre-Mature baby by 6 Weeks. I weighed 4 pounds 13 oz. I have no idea what that is in Kilos...sorry. I had no problems aside from a bit of Jaundice, but in California where I was born in the late 70's they told my mom to sunbathe with me for 1/2 hour per day or so, and see if that helped...it did, but, when I started on solid food I loved Squash and Carrots, so I looked jaundice again anyway...

My aunt had a C-section, with both because of that myth of tearing,

She recovered well. My buddy had a C-section with her baby girl, and then not with her son, (Daughter had a big head) she recovered well too. So, I think it has a lot to do with taking care of yourself....

Respectfully submmited as an observation..

[SilverMoonLady]

Aerin was a little carrot:) My boys had jaundice too, but they sent us all home with a portable "bili light".. that completed the image of little alien babies! (babies who miss the last 4 or more weeks of gestation don't get all that nice cuddly baby fat) Recoverable, but the pictures of them in their first month now are very funny... I have *beautiful* toddlers (no lie), but they were ugly babies!!

[Aerin]

Grandpa said that I looked like a skinned rabbit...and a carrot too!

[NancyBrooke]

[Yavanie]

Hey, I'm back!!
To Aerin, NancyB, Rous, Anna, Mora, Hathor, Sil, and everyone else:
Thanks for your prayers and best wishes. It was a busy week. My husband's grandmother passed away peacefully at the hospice before we left.
It was a bittersweet drive up there (complicated by a flat tire late saturday evening in a VERY small Texas town, limped into the the next town on the spare and sat for 2hours waiting on a new tire). Anyway, I finally got to meet a lot of great relations I didn't even know he had. Went through all his grandmother's stuff (very little material possessions, she gave away much of what she had, very generous). Helped his mother and aunt do that and go through all the photo albums (83 years of a long and fullfilled lief). Helped his sister and bro-in-law pack (they are moving to another state to help start a new church). Spent as much time as we could with all the distant relations that came for the services (still mystified that my husband and his wife and kids can present the bread and wine to the bishop in church but can't take communion - we're not catholic). Must say, really neat folks he's related to. Wish we had the oportunity to meet them when she was alive.

Am so glad to be home and SO in need of some mindless diversion.

Now would be a great time to be graced with some of those catchy, off the cuff lymerics!