Thread: C- section birth

My wife is currently 7 months pregnant, and she's as round as she is tall. Her doctor has told her in all probability. she will have to have a C-section. Her due date is November 10th. Any guidance on what to expect? Length of stay; will I be able to stay with her during delivery, can i use a card to pay the bill? All I get out of the wife is no worry darling, later later lol!

My Wife had a C-section in Bangkok about 13 years ago cost about 10.000 bht but it was a private doctor who came to the hospital, according to her he was better because he cut her horizontal not vertical. She was in for a couple of days. As to payment if it's one of the big hospitals in Bangkok can't see a problem with card.

Originally Posted by daveboy

according to her he was better because he cut her horizontal not vertical..

Just wanted to highlight this as it is important. Try to find out what cut the doc will use. A good surgeon will leave a less than 10cm horizontal scar right on the public hair line, which when heals will be barely noticible. A bad one will cut from the breast bone down to the pubic hair bone, leaving her looking like she has been filleted. Given that many Thais suffer from keloid scaring, its quite important.


Also would maybe try to find what (if any!) medical reason there is for going for a c-section at this point....

Originally Posted by nidhogg

A bad one will cut from the breast bone down to the pubic hair bone, leaving her looking like she has been filleted. Given that many Thais suffer from keloid scaring, its quite important.

Surely, nobody does that vertical cut anymore....















Ooh, it's Thailand, innit?

Our latest kept us in hospital for 5 or 6 days

Cost a total of 11000 baht incl VIP room, where I could stay too

When the little one arrives, have the hospital prepare papers for the kid to have it's '30 baht card', before you pay the bill, and you'll save some money.

Or so I was told

Worked twice now

Originally Posted by helge

Our latest kept us in hospital for 5 or 6 days

Cost a total of 11000 baht incl VIP room, where I could stay too

When the little one arrives, have the hospital prepare papers for the kid to have it's '30 baht card', before you pay the bill, and you'll save some money.

Or so I was told

Worked twice now

Hi helge forgive my ignorance but what is a 30 baht card?

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

will I be able to stay with her during delivery

I couldn't

"No private hospital "

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

can i use a card to pay the bill?

If you can't there'll be an ATM

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

no worry darling

"Everything go automatic"

Happy for you

Actually, these questions are a good one to ask of the Dr. and hospital you've chosen, if you don't like their answers look for another.

Thailand has one of the worst rates of C-Section in the developed world according to WHO, up to 90% of all births in some hospitals when WHO reccomends 10%...

But it is usually safe and easy to do so.

A good Dr and hospital will;

let you stay through procedure,
Let you stay overnight in the room,
Let the baby stay with you overnight in the room if all is well
Let you pay by card and give you an estimate of cost, ~100,000 baht is the top end.


A C-section usually takes longer to recover for mum, usually about 3-5 days.

Blow me, i'm going to have to agree with the troll boy about something. Basically all doctors in Thailand will try and pressure you into a C section as they get more money for it + it's a lot quicker, no 24 hour labour so the doctor can get back on the golf course instead of wasting his/her time in a hospital, they will also try and scare your misses into having one aswell. So basically unless you/your misses want a C section for whatever reason, insist on a natural birth unless there are medical reasons that dictate otheriwse.

yes try for natural
much easier on wife n baby

more effort on doctor lol

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Blow me, i'm going to have to agree with the troll boy about something. Basically all doctors in Thailand will try and pressure you into a C section as they get more money for it + it's a lot quicker, no 24 hour labour so the doctor can get back on the golf course instead of wasting his/her time in a hospital, they will also try and scare your misses into having one aswell. So basically unless you/your misses want a C section for whatever reason, insist on a natural birth unless there are medical reasons that dictate otheriwse.

The wife actually wants to give birth naturally. Her doctor on the other hand says she will need a C-section because of her size, farang baby too big! The wife's normal weight is 38 kilos, last time doc weighed her ( last month ) she was 52 kilos. Think I will have a word with the doctor next time she goes.

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Blow me, i'm going to have to agree with the troll boy about something. Basically all doctors in Thailand will try and pressure you into a C section as they get more money for it + it's a lot quicker, no 24 hour labour so the doctor can get back on the golf course instead of wasting his/her time in a hospital, they will also try and scare your misses into having one aswell. So basically unless you/your misses want a C section for whatever reason, insist on a natural birth unless there are medical reasons that dictate otheriwse.

The wife actually wants to give birth naturally. Her doctor on the other hand says she will need a C-section because of her size, farang baby too big! The wife's normal weight is 38 kilos, last time doc weighed her ( last month ) she was 52 kilos. Think I will have a word with the doctor next time she goes.

That is the normal BS reason they give 'farang baby too big', i was lucky in that my misses was still working at the hospital in Bangkok when she became pregnant and i'd met the doctor we were dealing with socially a couple of times, so no BS involved. But we were in the process of moving as i'd had enough of Bangkok, think the misses was 5 or 6 months gone when moved to the darkside of Pattaya so had to go register at a new hospital and ended up having this ignorant, evil Chinese bitch as a doctor who started giving my misses loads of shit about C sections etc, so a quick phone call to Bangkok and the doctor there phoned this Chinese bitch who after that actually turned into quite a nice person, few months later 2-3 hour labour, natural birth and no problems.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Blow me, i'm going to have to agree with the troll boy about something. Basically all doctors in Thailand will try and pressure you into a C section as they get more money for it + it's a lot quicker, no 24 hour labour so the doctor can get back on the golf course instead of wasting his/her time in a hospital, they will also try and scare your misses into having one aswell. So basically unless you/your misses want a C section for whatever reason, insist on a natural birth unless there are medical reasons that dictate otheriwse.

The wife actually wants to give birth naturally. Her doctor on the other hand says she will need a C-section because of her size, farang baby too big! The wife's normal weight is 38 kilos, last time doc weighed her ( last month ) she was 52 kilos. Think I will have a word with the doctor next time she goes.

That is the normal BS reason they give 'farang baby too big', i was lucky in that my misses was still working at the hospital in Bangkok when she became pregnant and i'd met the doctor we were dealing with socially a couple of times, so no BS involved. But we were in the process of moving as i'd had enough of Bangkok, think the misses was 5 or 6 months gone when moved to the darkside of Pattaya so had to go register at a new hospital and ended up having this ignorant, evil Chinese bitch as a doctor who started giving my misses loads of shit about C sections etc, so a quick phone call to Bangkok and the doctor there phoned this Chinese bitch who after that actually turned into quite a nice person, few months later 2-3 hour labour, natural birth and no problems.

Funnily enough, the wife's doctor is a Chinese woman. I will definitely be putting my view point across at the next appointment.

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Blow me, i'm going to have to agree with the troll boy about something. Basically all doctors in Thailand will try and pressure you into a C section as they get more money for it + it's a lot quicker, no 24 hour labour so the doctor can get back on the golf course instead of wasting his/her time in a hospital, they will also try and scare your misses into having one aswell. So basically unless you/your misses want a C section for whatever reason, insist on a natural birth unless there are medical reasons that dictate otheriwse.

The wife actually wants to give birth naturally. Her doctor on the other hand says she will need a C-section because of her size, farang baby too big! The wife's normal weight is 38 kilos, last time doc weighed her ( last month ) she was 52 kilos. Think I will have a word with the doctor next time she goes.

That is the normal BS reason they give 'farang baby too big', i was lucky in that my misses was still working at the hospital in Bangkok when she became pregnant and i'd met the doctor we were dealing with socially a couple of times, so no BS involved. But we were in the process of moving as i'd had enough of Bangkok, think the misses was 5 or 6 months gone when moved to the darkside of Pattaya so had to go register at a new hospital and ended up having this ignorant, evil Chinese bitch as a doctor who started giving my misses loads of shit about C sections etc, so a quick phone call to Bangkok and the doctor there phoned this Chinese bitch who after that actually turned into quite a nice person, few months later 2-3 hour labour, natural birth and no problems.

Funnily enough, the wife's doctor is a Chinese woman. I will definitely be putting my view point across at the next appointment.

Which hospital???

I see you asked about fees earlier, my misses had a private room with own bathroom, stayed for 3 nights and total cost was about 40k baht, this is going back 9 years though in a private hospital, but everyone else i know ended up having a C section probably most if not all of them not needed and their bills ranged from 70k-120k baht.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Blow me, i'm going to have to agree with the troll boy about something. Basically all doctors in Thailand will try and pressure you into a C section as they get more money for it + it's a lot quicker, no 24 hour labour so the doctor can get back on the golf course instead of wasting his/her time in a hospital, they will also try and scare your misses into having one aswell. So basically unless you/your misses want a C section for whatever reason, insist on a natural birth unless there are medical reasons that dictate otheriwse.

The wife actually wants to give birth naturally. Her doctor on the other hand says she will need a C-section because of her size, farang baby too big! The wife's normal weight is 38 kilos, last time doc weighed her ( last month ) she was 52 kilos. Think I will have a word with the doctor next time she goes.

That is the normal BS reason they give 'farang baby too big', i was lucky in that my misses was still working at the hospital in Bangkok when she became pregnant and i'd met the doctor we were dealing with socially a couple of times, so no BS involved. But we were in the process of moving as i'd had enough of Bangkok, think the misses was 5 or 6 months gone when moved to the darkside of Pattaya so had to go register at a new hospital and ended up having this ignorant, evil Chinese bitch as a doctor who started giving my misses loads of shit about C sections etc, so a quick phone call to Bangkok and the doctor there phoned this Chinese bitch who after that actually turned into quite a nice person, few months later 2-3 hour labour, natural birth and no problems.

Agreed. A lot of the Thais and Chinese also like to have the birth on "auspicious" or "lucky" dates / times as well.

My missus insisted on a natural birth at the Bkk-Pattaya hospital last year. No objections from the docs there at all, really. However, came the time and after 12 hours of painful labour, my lad was not forthcoming. So we had to have a C-section eventually anyway. All in, about 45,000 Baht, not including previous checkups and ultrasounds.

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Blow me, i'm going to have to agree with the troll boy about something. Basically all doctors in Thailand will try and pressure you into a C section as they get more money for it + it's a lot quicker, no 24 hour labour so the doctor can get back on the golf course instead of wasting his/her time in a hospital, they will also try and scare your misses into having one aswell. So basically unless you/your misses want a C section for whatever reason, insist on a natural birth unless there are medical reasons that dictate otheriwse.

The wife actually wants to give birth naturally. Her doctor on the other hand says she will need a C-section because of her size, farang baby too big! The wife's normal weight is 38 kilos, last time doc weighed her ( last month ) she was 52 kilos. Think I will have a word with the doctor next time she goes.

Just out of interest - are you somewhere with reasonable medical facilities?

i.e if you go natural and it starts to go pear shaped at 2am, will there be proper facilities to handle it?

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

The wife actually wants to give birth naturally. Her doctor on the other hand says she will need a C-section because of her size, farang baby too big! The wife's normal weight is 38 kilos, last time doc weighed her ( last month ) she was 52 kilos. Think I will have a word with the doctor next time she goes.

What? 38 kilos???
In that case, it probably makes sense to have a C-section.
Farang baby can be kinda big, my 2 kids with my thai wife weighed in at 4.4 and 4,6 kilos.
The doctors set the birth going with the latter one, as they were afraid that the child would be too big for her to give birth to.

First child was delivered by means of a suction cup. It was a very hard delivery and a critical one too.
And my wife`s normal weight is 52 kilos, 152 cm.

Best of luck to you and your missus.

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

All I get out of the wife is no worry darling, later later lol!

She seems very calm, keep it that way. Is it her first child?

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

Originally Posted by OhOh

Originally Posted by Tizmoi

All I get out of the wife is no worry darling, later later lol!

She seems very calm, keep it that way. Is it her first child?

She is extremely calm, I would go as far to say she is actually enjoying it! Me on the other hand just does not like the idea of a C-section.

Don't have one then (unless there is a medical reason for it), as i said doctors in Thailand will push for a C section as they are quicker and they get more money for them and will even scare women into having them, plus most Thais are scared to question doctors themselves so they just accept whatever they are told. You have to take over, presumably your doctor will speak English, ask him/her yourself what the medical reason is that requires your misses to have a C section and don't just accept his/her answer without questioning him further. Probably an idea though if you do a bit of research before questioning the doctor though so you can refute whatever BS they come out with. Of course if there is a genuine medical reason for a C section then ignore the above.

Feck me, 11k is cheap. Our bill is expected to be between 60 and 100k if we opt for c-section. I assume it's a government hospital?

I read it incorrectly, I thought he'd typed 110,000 baht, which makes more sense.

Regarding leave, under the labor law how long is the father entitled to, Is it 3 weeks?

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

Feck me, 11k is cheap. Our bill is expected to be between 60 and 100k if we opt for c-section. I assume it's a government hospital?

Free if done at the government hospital to which she is registered. Pay if not at the hospital of registration, unless it's an emergency.