If you chose to have an elective c section, are you happy you had it?

Don’t mean planned/recommended c sections for breech babies etc, I mean if you chose to have a c section purely because you wanted one.

Totally believe every woman should chose how to give birth but curious to see who is happy they made that decision and who perhaps regretted it.

I was booked to have an elective with my second due to my first being a traumatic vaginal birth and wanting to avoid the trauma a second time. In hindsight I always wished my first birth had been an elective c section because it was so horrendous but my second birth ended up being a positive vaginal birth and I’m glad I ended up not having the elective because my recovery from my second birth was very smooth.

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