Since we all know we can feel differently about our cesareans I thought I'd make a poll just so everyone can see that we may not all feel the same.

If I don't have an option there that fits how you feel please choose other and tell us how it is you feel.

Very happy with it

I've learned to be ok with it. My first was harder for me to process. I'm better now and know that my second cesarean was absolutely necessary.

I'm very happy with my csection. When I first found out I had to have one I was a little sad. But, I got over that very quickly because I knew it was the right thing for myself and my son.

I'm also very proud!

I've learned to be okay with it. Was NOT happy that both my deliveries were C-section, but what can you do? The third one will have to be C-section, I've talked to several different doctors, and none of them will consider a Vbac. Oh well.

I am very happy with mine. Never had any issues.

I have learned to be ok with it. I had a lot of grief after my first one and recurrent grief after my failed vbac. I ended up being ok with it the 2nd one since it was medically necessary. I didn't have any other choice with the 3rd so no reason to dwell at that point. My oldest is 4 1/2 so I have had time to process it.

I said other.

I'm not thrilled, but I'm not devastated. OK well there are days I'm devastated, but more about how I was taken advantage of. I shouldn't be where I am today, I shouldn't have 3 cesareans under my belt. I'm very healthy and active, all my children were healthy in utero and had no complications, there was no reason for all of it to happen the way it did.

I dont sit around dwelling on it though. Instead I use my experiences to help others not have to go down the path I did. I use my experiences as fuel for education and advocacy.

I put other.

I'm grateful that it was there when I needed it, but I'm sad that I did need it. To me it would be like saying you're happy with your root canal. Sure it might have been necessary and the dentist did a good job, but it still sucks!

I put not ok, but dealing.

My VBAC was the best therapy I could have asked for, but I am still sadend by missing the birth of my son, and I will always have that worry of being forced into another one.

I put other.

I am okay with having a c-section, I am just upset that things went wrong during it. I wish the epidural would have worked, and I didn't feel them cut me. And I wish I didn't have to be put to sleep. I'm having a hard time dealing with the physical and mental pain of them messing up.

I'm alright that I had a c-section, and am not grieving that part.

I'm very happy with both of mine, and like someone else said, I'm also very proud!

I put that I've learned to be OK with it. It wasn't the way I wanted to birth my baby, but without having one my little man might not be here. So...it doesn't really matter how he came out as long as he came out healthy.

Im happy with it, just not the anesthesiologist

I was very upset after my first, but learned to accept it.
With my last 3, I was totally fine with them.

I put ok with it and always have been. I wouldn't say I'm happy, I would have rather not had to have a c/s but I'm definately ok with it because it was necessary and I haven't ever felt a moment of regret about it.

Im ok with it, always have been.

At 37 weeks i found out my daughter was breech. I knew the instant she told me, i did not want a version. To me it was just to risky. I didnt want to risk the cord being caught around her neck, i just wanted her out safely. I had suffered a m/c before her, and i just couldnt bring myself to do it. Thankfully at 39 weeks, i was told she was too big to turn anyways, well not to big, but no room left. So i didnt have to make that choice. We scheduled my csection for 40 weeks 5 days, and she was born.

My family had more problems with it that i did. I never really needed to think about it, or question MY decision. I wasnt forced into a csection by my doctor, becuase my doctor wanted to do a version. but i asked for more time, and to wait and see if she would turn on her own, and my doctor happily complied with that decision.

Me and my daughter are both healthy and thats all that is important to me. I would love the chance to be able to do a vbac, but if i had to have another csection, i would also be ok with it.

I am happy with my csection considering I chose to have it!

I actually hate the crap out of it.....i didn't want to have someone mess with my body especially WITHOUT me giving authorization.......the feeling i got waiting outside the OR was that of complete helplessness and devastation.....i had no control over anything that was suppose to happen to me......it was not my choice AND i had no say in it......i cried from the moment the elevator doors closed behind me and i said goodbye to hubby to an hour PP when i was shaking in the recovery room trying to realize what happened, HOW i am gonna get better in this and if Stephanie was in the NICU (she was a premmie, that got 9/10 apgar and NEVER got in the NICU at least).....well at least one of the two was a tough one.....and thank God it was my daughter because my sickness could have killed her......so i think i'll never be ok with all of it........but i am dealing with it since it saved us....i would have never been able to go full term, not with my liver nums hitting the roof and Stephie scorring low NST's (the last).........urgggggg and then i think that i want another child and so is DH and then i know that ICOP has from a 40% to a 90% of being repeated, and that means i have to have a c-sec again for they will never let the baby go full terms in such a stressful environment because of my liver inability to clear out the mess (toxics)......how can i ever be ok with all this........

PS: Wanna laugh? Funny thing is that docs always told me (during pregnancy) that i have a long cervix and it keeps the child in so well.....hahahaha...little did they know that in such a cervix any try for an induction at 36 weeks would have made my (cervix) laugh it's little eyes out....... So i didn't even get to try induction.......

I put i've learned to be ok with it.
My daughter was coming at 24 weeks and was breech. She was also extremely small and was suggested even if she was head down that a c-section would be best for her. When I was dilated 9cm they said it was time and that I would need a classical c-section. A verticle incision on my uterus instead of horizontal. I knew it had to be done and have been saddened that I will never experience a natural birth. Because of the classical c-sec the rate of uterine rupture is increased and will not even be considered for v-bac it's too risky. So I will be scheduled for c-sec 2-3 weeks early to avoid labor and emergency section. After my scan on Mar.18 and we have a confirmed gestation I will be booking my section. Im kind of hoping for a sept.9 birth :)

I'm okay with it. Didn't have any complications or anything. And it wasn't an emergency c-section- I knew it was coming and I knew what to expect so that probably helped.

i'm not okay with it but i'm learning how to deal with the emotions.

yep. i could go on and on but i'll leave it at that.

I'm ok with it. I know it was necessary for us. I had an awesome dr who tried everything to avoid medical intervention. After 30 hours of labor and my daughters heart rate having troubles for the majority of the labor he finally decided that there was no avoiding the c section. I definitely didn't want it but I can't say that I grieve the drug free birth I was trying for.

I'm just fine :) I have two beautiful little girls at home, I was supported in my recoveries, and I have a scar that shows that as a mommy, I really gave it my all

Do I grieve the loss of some magical, mystical perfect birth? Hell no. LIfe is too short. I've lost a baby...that's more than enough grieving for a lifetime.

ditto!!!

oh and the pain meds were the icing on the cake!! Just kidding! hahahahhaahahahha