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i hear you. I am having one due to gestational diabetes and a family history of really serious labor / delivery problems - so my OB and I decided this was the safest road for the baby -- well my mother-in-law and her sister have definitely made it know that they do not approve, their mother had 12 kids and my mother in law easily birthed 3 nearly 9 lb babies, so she doesnt see what the big deal is. I'm like, great lady, several of the people in my family, including mom and grandmother almost DIED and the rest had major major probs, but I think MIL thinks I'm exaggerating and what is the big deal.

Oh good someone else...well not that good. My families understanding. My problem is rectum tearing...literally if i push too hard i could rip myself a new one. sorry tmi. But thats exactly why im not saying anything to anyone. Like i really want to explain my a___l fissure with my coworkers. Way to personal. At least you guys dont really know me. lol. I shouldnt have said it to my coworker it just came out. Stupid silly me. hehe. Oh well they can think what they want, all thats important is us, our health and babies.

So people are giving you c___p because you NEED one? That is rude. It is especially disheartening to hear people say things like "oh, you're having your baby the easy way" or things like that. I had a 37.5 hour labor AND c-sections. There is no easy way! You ladies just do what is best for you and your baby's health.

Why should it matter how a baby is born as long as it is healthy and the mom is healthy. I thought that was the goal of childbirth! I always believed in the "my body, my choice" rule. Women are the troopers of this race whether we do it v____ally or by c-section. As for age, why should it matter. Being a good mom doesn't require an age limit. Babies are a gift from God and people should focus more on the end result rather than how they get here. Good luck and you have my respect.

Anyone who thinks a c section is the "easy way" is a moron. I will have c sections for every pregnancy because my first section was the cla__sic incision and an emergency which means any subsequent pregnancy will be a c section. And you are all so right, all that matters is both mom & baby are healthy.

I couldn't agree more, I've done it both ways, and neither option is an easy one! I hear that so many times lately..."oh, you're having another c-section, well at least you get to take the easy way out." I'll tell you one thing, anyone who calls a c-section the "easy way out" has obviously never recovered from one!

Maybe I just have a faulty memory. But my 2nd C-section is scheduled for Thurs. 4/6/06 & I can’t wait. I REQUESTED it. (My friend's baby died 8 or 9 months ago trying a VBAC. She almost died too. NO THANK YOU! 1% chance of that happening, you say? Ask me if I care. C-section, HERE I COME!) Besides, I'm SO excited I don't have to do LABOR this time. (My 1st one was “Frank Breech” & I did almost 7 hours of labor on a pitocin drip with NO pain meds before that was discovered. Once they figured that out, I was whipped off for a very-much-UNWANTED C-section. FEAR! BIG TIME!) Now, since I've done labor & a C-section ... I'm ALL about another c-section. Skip this labor garbage. I'm ready for my surgery!

I have to agree with Kristi-labor sucked and I was orginally going for a vbac with this pregnancy but doc has rec. to go c section again. I am ok with it now, still a little nervous-recovery with a 23 month old at home. But I have to say that since I have announced my c section for June 1st, I have gotten some weird responses. Mostly from a friend of my hub. who has had three v____als and has bragged about feeling no pain with all three. She had an epi. She acts as though I am going to have a cake walk birth-I hate it that she acts like she is some sort of martyr while I am this easy way out taker or something. I hate it that people don't know what it actually takes to recover from this yet have the b___s to judge it like they know something about the pain. But I guess that is the way some people are...good luck ladies!!

Awww Jenn ... (this is Kristi) ... tell that FRIEND that as soon as she does any kind of birth action without the pain meds she can the right to open her cake hole about YOUR DOCTOR’S decision to have a C-section. Don't forget to remind her that you will have a HUGE incision after the birth to deal with; not to mention that your insides will be laid out on the OR table before they put them back in & sew you back up. Cake walk? NO! Besides, who is she? And what is she THINKING??? I didn’t know that child birth was a friggin’ compet_tion.