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In reply to the discussion: Forced C-Section [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)first of all, I'm sorry that sounds extremely traumatic. But I want to clear up one misconception, and that is that when a doctor decides to do an emergency C-section that women suddenly get wheeled down the hall to the OR and are getting cut open within a few minutes. That almost never happens. Once the decision for my C-section was made, it took well over an hour to get everything together. True, it was a small remote hospital, but even in major centers (in my discussions with other women with true 'emergency' C-sections) you'll be lucky to be operated on within 20 minutes. If your baby was that close to being born that the doctor could touch the head, a C-section probably wouldn't have happened in time anyway. It almost never happens like they show it on TV.