#196 Devon's induction and vaginal birth to Twins

Yeah, because thinking about stats as well.

So in New Zealand stats for twins, first of all, only 2% of pregnancies become twins.

One third, only a third of twins are born vaginally.

So two thirds are born by C-sections.

So It's statistically the odds are not in the favor of a vaginal birth, but we can't predict who's going to be in that one third and who's going to be in the two thirds and what's happening along the way.

So I guess it is very much a case of just keeping an open mind to go with the flow.

Totally.

And I think it was interesting that they do give you a choice.

quite early or, you know, because we, because we were high risk, we also had to meet with an obstetrician and they do sort of breach the topic of birth earlier than I thought they would.

And, you know, you can, you can choose which path you want to go down prior to, I mean, as you can with any kind of birth, but you know, you're able to schedule a C-section before you may know that you need one or vice versa.

So.

it was interesting sort of weighing all those things up.

And I think we were cognizant of the fact that like, there is a potential that if you go in and try and have a vaginal birth, you could end up also having to have a cesarean.

And like in my brain, that was worst case scenario because then you're recovering from two different modalities.

I know one baby born.

Yeah.

So the first baby born vaginally, and then the second baby born by C-section, I think that would be a bit of a hard road to travel.

It would be.

And I'm sure there are plenty of, you know, positive experiences with that as well, but just, I mean, it was so hard trying to, recover from birth while also having to constantly hold a baby because even with you know the most supportive husband and partner and we're like we're totally equal in all things at this point like you still are holding one baby all the time

yeah

so yeah having to recover from both types of birth with twins would have just been I can't even imagine

um

So, yeah, I think that was the only consideration.

And then and then there's the question of induction or not to induce if you get past a certain point.

And I think I had some conflicting feelings about that as well, just because part of me wanted to believe that, like, you know, if the babies are holding on, then, you know, it's because they've got some more growing to do.