Breech baby and I’m Rh-negative, so they couldn’t attempt an external version lest there be a leak to intermingle our blood. Spent my last three months trying to coax him upside down, but he was (and still is) a stubborn old fart.
In the delivery room, my doctors (I thought female OB-GYNs would be better than a man…) freaked out because he was coming so fast, and insisted on the C-section. I was pissed, but I lost all confidence in my docs and knew I wouldn’t have the patience to coax them *and* my baby through it without a fight, so rolled my eyes and let them proceed.
Next baby, I did my own prenatal care. Went to PP for RhoGAM during and after pregnancy, but otherwise took charge of the whole thing. The only complication was that I gave birth on an old-timey sofabed and that bar across my sacral spine gave me backaches for a week.
Birthing took about 45 minutes start to finish—no tears, no complications, and we went out for tacos the next day to celebrate.
Unless they did a seriously crap job sewing you back together after your C-section, there’s no reason you can’t safely have a natural birth (or three) after that.
If I’d had a court get involved, I would have spit fire and sued everyone possible for usurping my rights as a mother. 
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