Emegency delivery 1st time, high risk 2nd time?

[tinkerbelle93]

I just wondered about this. When I had Oliver, upon arriving at hospital at 7cm dialated they picked up that he was in foetal distress, and that his heart rate was dropping with each contraction. I was quickly whisked to theatre where I had an epidural, episiotomy and they pulled him out with forceps in under a minute. If that had failed then they would have done a C-section.

I'd done everything you're supposed to do to help prevent intervention. No epidural. No pain relief. Stayed at home for majority of labour. Stayed relaxed, warm baths etc.

I DO NOT want this to happen to me again. Ever. I'm desperate for a normal delivery next time but I'm scared this will happen.

Does anyone know whether this means I have a higher chance of it happening again? Would it be non-advicable to want a home birth? Anyone have a complicated delivery but subsequent babies had straight-forward births?

 

[Banshee]

My first delivery was also an emergency. I'd been at home contracting nicely for about 7 hours before going to the hospital. When I got there they popped on a monitor and discovered that ds1 had a pathological (?) heartrate so it was suddenly all go to prep me for theatre, try and get an oxygen reading from a scratch test and ended up with an emergency c section under general.
Personally, I could not have gone for a home birth after that even if I'd been allowed to as I'd have been too worried about what might happen.
For my second delivery I ended up with a second emergency c section but for a completely different reason - failure to progress and low foetal heartrate after induction. But it was in no way the same level of emergency as the first delivery.

 

[Mummykez]

What happened in your labour has nothing to do with you doing the right thing, it is cord compression and I just something that happens, every labour is different xx