I forgot to say that my second labour with my CAH child was the easiest of the lot and the birth was within 12 hours.  First one was 36 hours.  The second stage was about 2 hours.  I think if the second stage is much longer than an hour in labours following so many children though Sara, to my mind that means that there is a problem.  Generally after your first labour, second stage should be around an hour.  In first labour about two hours.

My first caesar was because of placenta praevia.  I asked for the fifth to be born by caesar because I did not want to labor on a scar, and other labors had been longer than average.  My third normal birth went longer than I expected and was well over 20 hours.  The baby turned when they stuck an electrode on his head to monitor him so he had been in positions and then flipped face up.  That was because there was a lot of amniotic fluid and my waters had not gone.  The fifth baby was also surrounded with a lot of amniotic fluid.  They couldn’t really decipher why but they could detect it on scans and the fourth had a two vessel cord instead of a two vessel cord and had to have a scan to check his kidneys about two weeks after birth.  I think it must have been the way the placenta was positioned and I know it encroached on his head in the pelvis because where the placenta was pressing on his left ear, it now curls over at the top.  Almost like someone was bending his ear down and it grew like that. :)  He has a spock ear and a normal ear! ;)

I can understand you apprehension of the birth---even going on a scar is also a worry nevermind worrying about the distress of the baby also.  I just did not want to go through a long labour (as I knew being small this would be the case!) and then have someone then say, right down to the theatre--because in an emergency, your husband cannot go in if they have to knock you out.  I felt much better planning for a caesar and then asking for my tubes tied later on as we neared the date.  Actually asked if they could do a tummy tuck, but they wouldn’t!  ;) 

I guess we are all different and to me I just wanted to know what was going to happen instead of have this worry all my pregnancy and stress out about something different happening.  I have this fear of general anaesthetic---and it plaqued me.  So the best way for me was to plan the opposite and more predictable outcome.  Even though it is painful after and takes a while to recover.