C-Section Recovery & Support Blog

For women having multiple c-sections, risks and dangers can be much more of a concern, especially for women who have 3 or more c-sections.

For example, hysterectomies were almost five times higher for women having a forth c-section than for women having their second.  Also risks like blood transfusions increase after 6 c-sections or more.

Of course there are many women who have undergone 6 or more c-sections without a problem, every woman’s experience is different and many women never experience even one problem; however the risks are high enough that it’s important to be aware of them and take the necessary precautions.

Having a large family may be important to you but the health and well being of you, your baby and the children you already have should be carefully considered.  Read more »

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 today. When a woman is considering having more children after having her first cesarean delivery, she may have some concerns about  things like 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 have no more than three c-sections, and back when that was recommended a vaginal birth after cesarean delivery or VBAC 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.  Read more »