Planned section at Medway Hospital

I'm 38 weeks pregnant and still haven't heard anything about my planned section! All they've said is it will be sometime in my 39th week. Are there any mums on here who have had a planned section at Medway hospital recently? When did you hear about your date? My husband and MIL are both stressing as they need to let their work know the dates they'll need off..

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Hey, I haven’t had a planned c section in Medway but having 2 planned c section and 3 c sections in total. They should have had the conversation with you from 36 weeks. Despite having a planned c section, babies can come at anytime. Which my son did at 38 weeks + 1 day. They are slacking and if I was you I’ll be calling the hospital straight away. That is really poor on their behalf. You don’t need all of this confusion whist heavily pregnant. You should be relaxing x

I have a planned c section at Medway hospital too I’m 38 weeks today I tried calling the department but they are closed after 1pm so I called the midwife department they said the call will be a week before the actual c - section date so for example if they want to do it when your 39 weeks and 3 days then they will call you when your 38 weeks and 3 days and tell you

The midwife also gave me the aurella team number to call them in the morning tomorrow would you like it ?

I had a call on a Monday to say my section was on the Friday. I then got a call early Tuesday morning (7am) to say if I got to the hospital for a pre-op at 2pm that day I could have baby out tomorrow (Wednesday). Couldn’t fault them to be honest with letting me know. You may find they will call you during the week or very soon x

I had an elective cesarean at Medway in January, and think they called me the Wednesday before (was booked for the following thursday). It was a really lovely experience, and all of the staff there were so friendly and helpful. Couldn't have asked for anything more for the birth of our baby. I hope it all goes well!

Thank you everyone for your responses. It's put my mind at ease that they haven't forgotten me!! could you please message me the number for the team. I'll give them a call if I haven't heard by Thursday. Thanks!

I had a planned c section. It was at 39+3 weeks and I got the call at 38+3 weeks

in our community

Oh my God, oh my God I hope this is not true!!!! I’m kind of scared

I’ve been throwing up and taking a shit all night!!! I just hope that it’s not what I think it is

Small head reported following 20 week scan

Has anyone else had it flagged that their baby is in the bottom 5th percentile for head size?

They said everything was fine whilst we were in the scan and then I got a phone call the next day saying that it’s on the small side and we’re being referred to a paediatric specialist at St George’s. Has anyone else had this and how did things go??

Would you bring 9 week old to a family party of 35+ people?

These are also people who will want to pass the baby around and get a turn to hold him. He just got his 2 month shots two days ago

Exercise 6 weeks after c section

What movement did people start to introduce? I won’t do anything too vigorous until I’ve seen the pelvic physio as I don’t want to compromise anything that may have been extremely weakened through pregnancy! But just wondering what types of classes/movement people started off with?

Induction experience

I just wanted to share my experience with being induced as I wasn’t sure what to expect and thought it may help others.

I opted for the foley balloon which was inserted at 8am Saturday morning, I had to stay in hospital due to hypertension and protein urine however usually you can just go home once this has been done. The insertion of the balloon was not painful, was slightly uncomfortable as there was slight pressure. I actually found having the cervix checked prior to be worse (again not painful at this point just uncomfortable) The balloon had little effect and after having it removed I was still only 1cm. Removal also was pain free and hardly even noticeable.

I then had my first dose of the gel and definitely noticed a difference, I started experiencing period like cramps almost immediately however they were light and manageable. After 6 hours I had another cervix check and although my cervix was soft it was still only 1cm and was only open at the front. I had another dose of the gel and felt an increase in pressure and more intense cramping where I now required pain relief (codeine). After another 6 hours I had another cervix check and I had now dilated to 2-3cm however was still quite difficult to get all the way through so a third gel was recommended which I agreed to.

Almost immediately I noticed the difference and was in considerable pain, I had paracetamol and codeine however the contractions had now become intense and a lot closer together (around 3 minutes apart). After a couple of hours I had my last cervix check and was 4cm and taken down to the Labour ward to have my waters broken and an epidural.

I had been in my room for approx 20minutes when my waters broke by themselves and I was now 10cm and actively pushing…. There was no time for the epidural and my beautiful girl arrived into the world within 2 minutes of pushing.

All in all I would say the cramps/contractions were manageable up until the third gel where it became pretty unbearable however it was for a very short time a gas and air helped take the edge off. The worst part about any of it was actually the later cervix checks where after stimulating the cervix my contractions were at their most painful.

If I had to be induced again I would skip the balloon and opt for the gels immediately as thy had a quicker effect and I would have been out a lot sooner if I had done this to begin with.

One more thing, I’ve never believed when people say “you forget the pain once they’re here” but I can honestly say this is true. It’s been 4 days and I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Gave birth (vagina) 5 days ago and yesterday morning and this morning getting lot of pain in my right bottom side and lower back