Lea Michele Discusses C-Section and PCOS

[ellie_andrews]

Lea Michele celebrates her C-section scar while posing in a bikini: 'It's the greatest reminder in the whole world' https://t.co/bf6LTY3S1q pic.twitter.com/ePWNoUuRdp
- Yahoo Life (@yahoolife) August 2, 2021
** at first disappointed that she had to have a C-section. felt so scared and weak during pregnancy that she thought a vaginal birth would show

Comments

[yurasama_love]

Wow, she really kept a low profile after the backlash on her being racist. Good luck to her baby.

[bostongirl2003]

tbf, no one was checking for her before that happened either

[xfindyourlove]

i just got diagnosed with PCOS about six months ago and i've been having a hard time with it and i need to lose a ton of weight. thankfully i've gotten my acne under control with the right supplements but it hasn't been easy.

i don't want to have kids but i just turned 30 and i know it'll likely be difficult for me to conceive in the future if i ever change my mind.

[boomstick]

My doctor put me on Spirolactone for it, and it helps. I'm also on Metformin for T2 diabetes, and the combo of those two meds is helping me a ton.

[xfindyourlove]

that's great to hear! i was given both spiro and metformin as treatment options. do you have any of the digestive issues with metformin? i got nervous about that so i've been taking ovasitol instead and it's helped a lot.

[boomstick]

You mean a lot of pooping, right? Yeah. Not terrible though. I eventually got used to it and now I poop like a normal person again!

[ext_5435762]

PCOS is the worst!

I had an emergency c-section with my second child and my mother-in-law’s friend shamed me hard. She said if I was her daughter-in-law she’d never allow me to have one. It was one of the strangest conversations of my life

[rhcp]

she'd never allow it, how? that is such a bizarre thing to say to someone.

[ext_5435762]

I don’t even know, fight with the doctors?? People suck

[numbedtoe]

Wit of the staircase, "And if I was the daughter of a mobster, you'd be wearing concrete boots for thinking you got to speak to me like that, about that, or dictate jack shit with my health."

people suck.

[rhcp]

gotta love major abdominal surgery being considered the easy way lol

i have had two csections. i labored for 53 hours with my first, so when my doctor suggested i could try for vaginal birth the second time i said no thanks, i do not need to go through that again. i have my moments of something like jealousy when i hear of "easy" or quick vaginal birth, but in the end i did the right thing for me and my children.

[veal]

Yes I was induced with my first and after 24 hours of laboring with not much movement I had to have an emergency c-section that was traumatic and ended in me missing the first 10 hours of my daughter’s life because I was unconscious.

When I had my second I chose a scheduled c-section because the idea of laboring only to end with an emergency cs sent me into a panic. The scheduled c-section was AMAZING and so much better than the first.

Now I always hop in to posts about c-sections ready to shut down the shamers and support the poster that it can be the right choice.

[mathkills]

I'm curious, C-sections of course have their own issues, but does a C-section destroy your pelvic floor less than a vaginal birth? I am not planning to have kids but endo has had me in pelvic PT for a few months and it has been really mentally rough having those issues that are constant and you need to fix, but also, you can't really talk about them.

[ellie_andrews]

I know just being pregnant can weaken your pelvic floor but having had a c section myself, I haven't really noticed anything major regarding my pelvic floor.

[touchedarling]

I’ve had 2 c sections by choice and like the commenter above said the weight of pregnancy can still impact your pelvic muscles (mine are fine) but apparently having a 3rd c section really increases risk of injury to your bladder as I was warned when I had my 2nd that if I wanted a 3rd baby I should consider a natural birth.

My friends mum has had 4 sections and has crazy bladder issues.

[mercibeaucul]

A lot less tbh. Pregnancy doesn’t always have zero effect but when a pelvic floor is substantially affected postnatally it’s the “squeezing out an 8lb human” that accounts for >>90% of it.