Hello everyone! I'm new here, 33 weeks pregnant and I have a 3 year old girl! I'm scheduled to get a…

I had an unplanned csection with my second son. They give you numbing shot in the spine so you are awake but cant feel anything from your ribs down. The procedure is fairly fast but it takes awhile to get stitched up and then another hour or so in the recovery room before seeing baby again. There was about a 3 hour span that I was without baby and hubby and it ended up being pretty emotional for me since I had no idea what to expect. My recovery was amazing, I don't know what makes some recoveries easy and others terrible, but mine went really well. I will be getting a csection with this baby as well. Best of luck to you! I hope my experience helped to answer some questions.

If you didn’t have one with your first why do you have a scheduled one with your second? (Just curious).

I have a brain condition called Arnold Chiari malformation, which was found in an MRI after I birthed my daughter, and pushing her vaginally actually made my condition herniate more so they've been monitoring me with the added weight of this pregnancy, and additional MRIs every trimester to see if things progress, which thankfully everyyyything looks the same. Originally I was told I was going to be put to sleep during the procedure, but now because things aren't worse I can possibly either be awake, or even push!

@ajowens1547, wow! I’m so glad for you that it hasn’t progressed! You’re a strong momma 💜

Thank you! It's definitely caused a ton of extra nerve pain and the added weight of pregnancy isn't helping at all! 🖕 My OBGYN recommended yesterday that I should try pool therapy so as soon as I'm able to sketch out the time, I'm THERE!