What Happens During A Planned C Section

Don t be surprised if there are a lot of people in the operating theatre.

What happens during a planned c section. You were intending to give birth vaginally but your labour has stalled or is very slow. If there s time to plan your caesarean you ll be given a date for it to be carried out. The procedure is similar whether the caesarean is planned or an emergency.

If you end up having an unscheduled c section or an emergency c section know that most of these procedural tasks still happen they just happen much faster and with more people helping. In truth a fair bit of squeezing does occur as the doctor guides your baby out through the incision he or she has made in your uterus. Caesarean sections are carried out in hospital.

A theatre nurse and an assistant. Most women who have planned c sections get local anesthesia either an epidural or a spinal block. I m also going to explain everything as if you were having a scheduled c section.

Still most caregivers agree that cesareans should be planned. An anaesthetist and an assistant. A c section birth plan should include things like who will be with you during the procedure if photos or videos are allowed and preferred type of anesthesia as well as plans for once the baby is born such as no pacifiers and who will follow the baby to the nursery.

In addition to the soreness you ll feel at the incision site you ll be dealing with virtually the same suite of symptoms during your recovery after a c section as you would experience in a vaginal delivery. You need this list. Like any major surgery a c section procedure comes with a basket of risks and complications that mothers must sign off on.

You ll stay in hospital for 3 or 4 days on average. Every time i open someone up there is chance of adhesion the bowels can get stuck to the abdominal wall schweizer says. The bladder can also get pushed up.