My son is 14 months old and I went to my OB yesterday to chat with her about possibly trying for another baby at some point. A bit of backstory - I had a c-section with my first and they had to make an inverted-t incision on my uterus. At the time, the hospital indicated that I wasn’t to start trying until my son was 18 months.

Fast forward to my appointment yesterday… my OB (whom I very much trust and is very well known) told me that because of the incision, I would be put on hospital bed rest at 30 weeks and they would do a c-section at about 36 or 37 weeks as they do not want me to go in to spontaneous labour. If I did go in to labour and didn’t have immediate medical assistance, I could bleed out or the baby could die because my uterus could potentially burst open. In addition to all of this, I’d have to have multiple ultrasounds throughout my pregnancy and also go to the high risk clinic at the hospital for all of my appointments which is always a 3-4 hour wait.

I was really excited about the potential for having another baby, but all of this makes me not even want to risk it. I also don’t want to be away from my family on hospital bed rest for such a length of time, plus I don’t know if I could even miss so much work with all of these appointments and such. I guess I just needed to vent a bit because I feel so sad and disappointed that this is all happening. Im not sure what to do moving forward, but I like will just stick with one child and that’s that.