Emergency C-section

Hey all

I had a cat 1 emergency c-section under general anaesthetic on 08/09..

Just wondering if anyone has any tips/advice for processing the trauma?

I feel like I’m okay at the moment but it’s going to hit in the coming days and I want to prepare myself

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37 weeks +2 days

Hi just looking to see if anyone else has had this before, so I’m 37 weeks and 2 days today and for the past couple of days I’ve not been feeling great lots of lower back ache and some period like pains but also some strange feelings like I feel hungry but don’t want to eat anything! And just overall just don’t feel right in myself.

Then since yesterday evening after going for a wee and wiping the tissue been like a pale pink/yellow colour but not like discharge just watery. Could someone please help me do you think it’s early labour or possibly an infection? I’ve added a picture so you can see what I mean ☺️

38 weeks on Tuesday and 1cm dilated

Hiya ladies I’ve been in hospital since around Thursday night as came in with contractions turns out I was only 1 cm but at that time I wasn’t contracting so regularly however a few hours later going into Friday morning contractions became extreme and way more regular so they kept me in since my first cervical exam they haven’t examined me so not sure where I am at now but contractions are not as intense but I still have a hard stomach hopefully I can go back home today if Labour hasn’t progressed

Any advice on what I should do and how to dilate more

I need a 2nd opinion on this!

I am 31 weeks and 4 days, my mucus plug left 3/4 days ago i have not been feeling too well for past 5-6 days now. I have had a feeling something isnt right and something is going to happen! Now baby is all good and active and shes been normal. Last night i noticed clear and none smell liquid (thinking my waters) leaking. Any how i go and ring triage and get told to go in, get there monitor baby and shes happy. I then get told theyre going to do a swab for my waters and thrush as i have had thrush before. Dr comes and does a speculum just looks says cervix is intact and just looking im happy for you to go home. Then asked if i have a history of thrush she then just gets a swab and shuvs it in me that came back fine not thrush i then get sent home.

Something doesn’t sit right with me though. My mucus plug or what i think was left me then im leaking clear water so obviously i am thinking shit my waters have gone but dr’s talking to me like a child send me home gone through 2 sanitary towels (thick ones) in 5 hours (maximum) but apparently thats ‘normal’ because my cervix is normal. My gut feeling is saying go back but i am annoyed at how they was speaking to me. I am 21 years old and i know my body and i know something isnt feeling right at all.

What do i do because i dont want to go back and feel like i have wasted another journey as it really upset me thinking about it but i dont know what to do at all now.

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