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For Myopic Mommies and All
by sophia35, Aug 07, 2007 11:10AM
Hi everyone!
I know most of you on this site are trying to get pregnant and I wish you the very best of luck. Congratulations to those of you who are expecting and I pray all goes well.
This post is just to give some advice I really appreciated when I was pregnant. I was all for a normal childbearth and was quite prepared for the contractions and the pain because I knew it would be worth it in the end.However, unfortunately I've got high myopia, though you'd never guess cause I use lenses. Anyway, I ( and people with high myopia in general ) are more prone to retinal detachments.
I'd already had a retinal tear in one eye which was fixed and was advised to do a C-section (?) to avoid the risk of a retinal detachment during labour. It hadn't even ocurred to me! Since I didn't want to risk having my baby and be rushed into eye surgery, I went to my eye doctor and with his "statement" the hospital programmed a C-section ( normally women who want that have to go to a private clinic)
Hope this is useful to anyone! I don't want to add to anyone's worries but I believe you're better safe than sorry.
By the way, I have a previous post entitled "Baby Girl Plan -Inappropriate?". If you are interested in
info to help nature go your way ( boy or girl ) ,please check it out and if you can give some input . I will update when I find interesting stuff!
I have a 5 year old boy and now, at the age of 38 would like to have another baby.
I sincerely wish everyone the best!
Sophia
I know most of you on this site are trying to get pregnant and I wish you the very best of luck. Congratulations to those of you who are expecting and I pray all goes well.
This post is just to give some advice I really appreciated when I was pregnant. I was all for a normal childbearth and was quite prepared for the contractions and the pain because I knew it would be worth it in the end.However, unfortunately I've got high myopia, though you'd never guess cause I use lenses. Anyway, I ( and people with high myopia in general ) are more prone to retinal detachments.
I'd already had a retinal tear in one eye which was fixed and was advised to do a C-section (?) to avoid the risk of a retinal detachment during labour. It hadn't even ocurred to me! Since I didn't want to risk having my baby and be rushed into eye surgery, I went to my eye doctor and with his "statement" the hospital programmed a C-section ( normally women who want that have to go to a private clinic)
Hope this is useful to anyone! I don't want to add to anyone's worries but I believe you're better safe than sorry.
By the way, I have a previous post entitled "Baby Girl Plan -Inappropriate?". If you are interested in
info to help nature go your way ( boy or girl ) ,please check it out and if you can give some input . I will update when I find interesting stuff!
I have a 5 year old boy and now, at the age of 38 would like to have another baby.
I sincerely wish everyone the best!
Sophia
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