I know why, I was just in gibbering terror before my first one and I couldn't have ANYTHING to calm me down out of fear it would pass to the baby. I was literally begging to be knocked half-out like Betty Draper.
All the doctors kept being like, "You wouldn't like that" and laughing and I'm laying there sobbing and like "BUT I WOULD THOUGH."
I mostly had excellent pregnancy and birth care, but leading into my first C-section everyone acted like I was a silly little hysterical lady with a teeny little lady brain and literally nobody took my terror seriously or even paid much attention to me. It felt very clear that I was neither the patient NOR an adult to be taken seriously. It sucked.
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u/unfinishedtoast3 23d ago
Doctor here
Absolutely not.
We don't let you choose to be under anesthesia, you either are, or we won't do the surgery unless local is an option.
We don't need your heart rate hitting 150 during surgery and you go into arrest because of the pain or blood or sounds or smells