Been Through A Scheduled C Section
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I'm not sure how to address this question. My friend is scheduled to have a c-section Monday morning, but I haven't had time to ask her the details, and I wanted to have kind of an idea of what she's going to be going through. Does the doctor have to induce a person, and them go through labor, dialate, and then the doctor say, "O.K., it's time to take the baby out."? Or is it like normal surgery, where you go in, the doctor prepares, and gives you the pain killer, cuts you open, takes the baby out, and there you are? Without going through labor, contractions, or pain before the delivery?
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No, with a schedule c-section, you do not labor - unless, you go into labor early. They are usually scheduled between 38 and 40 weeks. You go in, get prepped for surgery, and unless this is an emergency situation (most planned ones are not) they will not put you under general anesthesia but rather and epidural or spinal so that you are just numbed. They put a curtain across your chest so you don't see the operation, and they take the baby out. It actually does not take very long.
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