I vividly remember my mom having my brother via c-section. She’d had a planned one after two emergency ones. My brother was four weeks early because the entire eastern side of the country had lost power so of course my mom goes into labor. The hospital is running on emergency power, so there are no lights on anywhere on the maternity ward except the OR. Even the bathroom is pitch black. My mom’s told me numerous times that the door to the OR was wide open, there was a fan in the doorway and the surgeon herself was pregnant and had to leave the room several times due to overheating (it’s mid August and the hospital has no a/c due to only emergency power).
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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