Y c-sect???
well…it was so unexpected for me to go for caesarean section considering that i had my first baby(afnan) via spotaneous vaginal delivery. however, that is what happened to me on last 13th july 2009!
y?? to explain it in simpler terms, it was because of ‘failure to progress into labour’ after the induction process which was commenced on the monday,the 12th july. people will then ask, y was i induced (at 39 weeks)??it was because my pregnancy this time was considered as high risk pregnancy (i had to go to monday’s high risk clinic in CUMH during my pregnancy ) because of my previous stillbirth baby. since the doctors could not find out the cause of my afnan’s death till now, they had decided to induce me at 39 weeks to prevent from the same thing happened to afnan from happening again this time. mind u that afnan was delivered at 41 weeks( actually it was 6 days post EDD).
well, as this pregnancy was a high risk one, i had a very frequent antenatal check up in CUMH as compared to my first pregnancy. beyond 12 weeks gestation, i had several check ups done. i had anomaly scan done at around 22 weeks, and 4 weekly scan afterward until i was around 36 weeks,and 2 weekly afterwards. most of the scan done by the consultants themselves.it is a privilege here, as most high risk mothers will be seen by consultants, regardless if u are public or private patients( i am public patients, no money maa to pay for the costly health insurance ;o). and the antenatal and maternity care during pregnancy and up to 6 weeks post delivery is free of charge here in Ireland.u dont have to pay a single penny for their service during ur pregnancy, which somehow saved us a lot of money! (well, that money we saved for the delivery will be allocated for baby’s future ASB instead.)
i read somewhere in someone’s blog that the cost of caesarean section delivery and stay for 3 nights and 4 days and one of the private hospitals in M’sia costs about RM 10,000 altogether. quite a lot. luckily, haikal was born in Cork!alhamdulillah…
hope this blog saves me from answering the question ‘y am i having c-sect’
thanks 4 reading this n 4 ur concern :)
wassalam
