A Whole Lot of Difference

I thought giving birth via c-section was horrific, but I was wrong. Giving birth normally was a package I call : excruciatingly painful, long and crazy. Hehe… it was a process all mothers go through ever since human existed. And yet it never gets old. It is what I think a life-changing experience and again, one of those things in life that is the very essence of being a woman.

The vast difference between the two types of birth processes? Here are some that I find very interesting:

1. The healing process for normal delivery is VERY MUCH faster. I am now only in my second week of confinement and I am quite healthy and fresh. The first time around, it took me two weeks just to be up and about, still need help bathing coz I was still shaking and couldn’t hold anythg steadily.

2. You get thinner fasterr!! haha…yup…especially the tummy where it expanded to the point of no return, it took me about 1 week just to see it shrinking back… A LOT. With the c-sect, I was still having extra baggage when i was starting to get pregnant again… and I lost weight back to my original weight only after 9 months! Imagine how long that took…

3. Breastfeeding helps too I guess…it burns the calories you put on during pregnancy…With Asyraaf I didn’t breastfeed… :-(

4. It does not leave you with any scars… I still have kelloids from my previous c-section, the extra flesh on top of the scar of the operation. And it doesn’t look nice…at all…* sigh

5. It is painful to urinate and pass motion during the first week let alone to sit…especially when you have haemorrhoid added to it… * grimace

5. And it’s cheaper giving birth normally… I am glad we went for normal delivery albeit having concerns of any complications arising from VBAC…alhamdulillah everything went well…

But it is a choice I guess…some people go for the c-sect for the sake of the date, or to avoid the giving birth pain but some, for the sake of medical emergencies…Whatever the reason, it’s your body, you decide what’s best for yourself… But for me, I think I’ll still go for normal delivery if Allah permits… :-)