C-section delivery?

Question

if you have a c-section does it hurt as much as vaginal delivery? Like do you still have to go through labor? cause i figured if they give you anesthesia you can't feel it but my friend said they give it to you after your fully dilated.

Answer 1

h**l yea it hurts it hurts dam bad!!

Answer 2

a] they don't give you anesthesia[ a lot ] because it could harm the baby

b] you'll end up in the hospital twice as often as with normal delivery

c] you'll have twice as likely to have to go back to the hospital with compications

d] the recovery time is twice as long as if you would have had normal delivery.

e] it costs twice as much.

also, i was thinking about having the c-section delivery too, but then I heard all this on the news, and I figured if they gave me enough drugs and that spinal tap I wouldn't feel it.

but I quickly learned, that there is no way to get away from the pain.

hope i helped.

Answer 3

I am guessing that you want me to be honest with you...so yes it is excruciating. If it is a planned C-section it is supposed to go much better. When I had mine it was planned, but I had to go completely under. When I woke up I had no pain killers for 20 minutes...it was the worst pain of my life! Some emergency C-sections suffer from not enough pain killers so the women feels it all. Regardless of which way you have it  you are getting a HUGE incision cut into your body and the recovery time is going to be ALOT longer than a vaginal. Don't fool yourself into thinking that us C-section vets got a cakewalk because of anesthesia!

Answer 4

Depends.

If it's a planned c-section, you would not go through labor. (The section would probably be scheduled around a week before your due date.  If you did go into labor first, you would just go in and they would do surgery at that point.)  If it's an unplanned/emergecy section, you would labor as usual, until the dangerous situation appeared. At that point you would be taken in for a c-section.

A c-section itself is painless -- you are given a spinal anesthesia (rarely a general anesthesia if it's a real emergency), but there is much more pain during the recovery period.)

Answer 5

I think it would hurt

Answer 6

it depends if it';s planned or not or if the baby comes early. My mom had an emergency c-section with my brother so she had to go through labor. My aunthad a planned one becasue they already saw her hips were to small.

I would rather have a vaginal delievery though because it hurts really bad after.

Answer 7

It depends.  I had a planned c-section so they did the surgery before I went into labor.  However, a woman I work with had an emergency c-section and had to go through labor before the surgery.  

It is much more painful afterwards though.  It was days before I could walk comfortably and it was almost a month before I could go from laying down to sitting up without extreme pain.  

It is now almost 6 months later and I still have pain on the inside and in my back, which is considered normal.  I was told that I will have pain and numbness for up to seven years, and that's if it goes away at all because it might not.

The pain is at different times, but I think that the c-section delivery is more painful in the end.

Answer 8

Both of them hurt and thats a fact.

With C section they'll numb the lower art of your body meaning you wont really feel anything but that might not be a good thing cos you wont feel yourself giving birth and it also means its harder for you to move around and walk and stuff straight after.

In vaginal delivery it will hurt but you can have drugs for the pain and it will be a more intimate experience because you will feel more. You can also move around and walk stright after and can sometimes take your baby home that afternoon.

With a C-section i dont think it is labour, its like its planned, its like you just have the baby took out of you whereas i think vaginal delivery is a lot more natural.

They give it you more of less anytime when you need it, depends how much pain your in and if you ask for it.

Answer 9

It really depends on if it's planned or not.  They would schedule one ahead of time for various reasons- previous c-sections, size of the baby, health of the baby, heatlh of the mother, etc., etc.  If they are planning it ahead of time, then yes- you would get the anesthesia beforehand.  Obviously there's still alot of recovery afterwards though.  If you go into labor and after time passes, they realize they will need a c-section, then they are obviously starting anesthesia after you've had some labor pain.  Usually they only do a c-section if they need to, so I don't think they would wait until you are fully dilated if the well being of you or the baby were in question.