C-Section Recovery, Health & Preparation

Women who have had even one c-section worry about having others due to the possible increase of uterine rupture or tear in the uterus.

Certainly the risk increases the more C-sections you have; I think I read somewhere that hysterectomies were something like five times higher for women having their fourth C-section than for women having their second C-section and risks like blood transfusions increase after 6 C-sections or more.     Read more »

Multiple c-sections are very common, especially nowadays. When a woman is considering having more children after having her first via cesarean delivery, she may have some concerns about several things including: the type of birth(s) she’ll have in the future, the size of the family she can have, potential risks of complications along with concerns about her body image.

There was a time when doctors recommended a woman had no more than three c-sections and back then, a vaginal birth after cesarean delivery was practically unheard of due to the fear of risk to mother and baby. Even the way that cesareans were performed was generally different with a midline incision vertically on the woman’s abdomen. Today, most deliveries via c-section are lower uterine sections that involve a much smaller scar horizontally on the lower abdomen.        Read more »