Unmedicated birth while recovering from illness/injury?
Hi everyone, I’m currently 38 weeks and hoping for an unmedicated VBAC. I have had the worst run of sickness recently - a weekend of gastro at 36 weeks straight into a cough/cold for over a week now (which has also caused an intercostal muscle strain). I am in Australia so we are heading into winter and I also have a toddler in daycare so some sickness is inevitable but this sucks lol
Feeling pretty grateful to have made it this far (and otherwise healthy) after an emergency C section at 37+1 in my first pregnancy, but I’m also kind of sad I’m losing this time of peak nesting/labour prep to trying desperately to recover and hoping baby stays in until I’m better. I have been mentally preparing for so many situations after having severe pre-eclampsia last time but I did not expect to be taken out by the common cold.
I’m wondering if anyone has any stories/experience of unmedicated birth while recovering from/recently recovered from illness or injury?