Photo: Source: Chontel Duncan/InstagramChontel Duncan didn’t expect to have a C-section scar, but she couldn’t be more proud of it.Thefitness trainerand mom to7-month-old Jeremiahhad hoped to deliver her son with a vaginal birth, but, as she details inan Instagram postFriday, she had to go forward with a C-section.The process wasn’t easy for the doctors, though. Duncan, 27, saysher six-pack abs— that were visible formost of her pregnancy— made removing Jeremiah much more difficult.“They struggled to rip Jeremiah from my tummy as my abs locked him in super tight as I began vomiting during the operation,” Duncan explains. “This is why my scar was cut up on my right side because the surgeon had to cut me further an[sic] use forceps to successfully get Jeremiah out.”https://www.instagram.com/p/BMFfA9RAc11/“Perhaps a down side to a strong core.”Duncan, who owns multiple gyms in Australia with her husband, says she was horrified when she first found out that she would have toundergo a C-section—”I CRIED I felt like I failed”—but now she loves the scar that remains.“To all the women out there wearing a cesarean scar, I am VERY proud of what mine means & for the beautiful gift I received through mine,” she says. “They are memories of the day we all became mummies.”And Duncan hopes to have afew more kids— though she’s going to try for a vaginal delivery in the future.“I would love 3 more children & I will always try for a vaginal birth with each one,” she says.
Photo: Source: Chontel Duncan/Instagram
Chontel Duncan didn’t expect to have a C-section scar, but she couldn’t be more proud of it.Thefitness trainerand mom to7-month-old Jeremiahhad hoped to deliver her son with a vaginal birth, but, as she details inan Instagram postFriday, she had to go forward with a C-section.The process wasn’t easy for the doctors, though. Duncan, 27, saysher six-pack abs— that were visible formost of her pregnancy— made removing Jeremiah much more difficult.“They struggled to rip Jeremiah from my tummy as my abs locked him in super tight as I began vomiting during the operation,” Duncan explains. “This is why my scar was cut up on my right side because the surgeon had to cut me further an[sic] use forceps to successfully get Jeremiah out.”https://www.instagram.com/p/BMFfA9RAc11/“Perhaps a down side to a strong core.”Duncan, who owns multiple gyms in Australia with her husband, says she was horrified when she first found out that she would have toundergo a C-section—”I CRIED I felt like I failed”—but now she loves the scar that remains.“To all the women out there wearing a cesarean scar, I am VERY proud of what mine means & for the beautiful gift I received through mine,” she says. “They are memories of the day we all became mummies.”And Duncan hopes to have afew more kids— though she’s going to try for a vaginal delivery in the future.“I would love 3 more children & I will always try for a vaginal birth with each one,” she says.
Chontel Duncan didn’t expect to have a C-section scar, but she couldn’t be more proud of it.
Thefitness trainerand mom to7-month-old Jeremiahhad hoped to deliver her son with a vaginal birth, but, as she details inan Instagram postFriday, she had to go forward with a C-section.
The process wasn’t easy for the doctors, though. Duncan, 27, saysher six-pack abs— that were visible formost of her pregnancy— made removing Jeremiah much more difficult.
“They struggled to rip Jeremiah from my tummy as my abs locked him in super tight as I began vomiting during the operation,” Duncan explains. “This is why my scar was cut up on my right side because the surgeon had to cut me further an[sic] use forceps to successfully get Jeremiah out.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMFfA9RAc11/
“Perhaps a down side to a strong core.”
Duncan, who owns multiple gyms in Australia with her husband, says she was horrified when she first found out that she would have toundergo a C-section—”I CRIED I felt like I failed”—but now she loves the scar that remains.
“To all the women out there wearing a cesarean scar, I am VERY proud of what mine means & for the beautiful gift I received through mine,” she says. “They are memories of the day we all became mummies.”
And Duncan hopes to have afew more kids— though she’s going to try for a vaginal delivery in the future.
“I would love 3 more children & I will always try for a vaginal birth with each one,” she says.
source: people.com
