Four babies hemorrhage after parents refuse vitamin K shot, a practice on the rise

[kdmorris]

147. YIKES!

For most of my recent pregnancy (6 months ago) my twins were Baby A breech, Baby B vertex. So we scheduled a c-section. 4 days before the c-section, Baby A turned vertex (so both vertex) and my OB offered to induce and go for a vaginal birth since I'd given birth vaginally 3 times before. I thought about it, but we had invested so much in the pregnancy to get the boys to almost 38 weeks (they were born at 37w 5d) that I wasn't about to jeopardize Baby B just to try a vaginal birth.

So I went ahead with the scheduled c-section and it was my best birth experience EVER! I really don't know why I suffered through hours and hours of labor with my first three when you could just have them out in 2 minutes

Luckily, my recovery was equally fast and amazing...but I'm not sure it would have been had I tried to labor for hours and had an emergency c-section for Baby B after giving birth to Baby A. Considering that both of them were over 8 lbs, it would have been hard to turn Baby B if he decided to flip back again.

There IS a lot of pressure in the Mommy wars to give birth "naturally" and then breast feed for a year and yadda yadda yadda... but we have to learn to resist that pressure and make our own decisions just like we did in high school!