Nowadays so many women are delivering their abbies with a cesarean section. Is this a good thing, or is it potentially hazardous?
Many women have good, legitimate reasons for getting a c-section. It's very useful when the baby is in a breached posititon, and it's also beneficial after the woman has stuggled with labor to no avail. But when does it become too much?
As a recent Newsweek article stated, about 30% of all U.S. births are done with c-sections. Now, many of these births are not using c-sections due to necessity. Now, women try to schedule delivery dates, so they schedule the child's birth and birthday. Some women are picking certain days over others because, it's simply just a better number to them. But to men, births are suposed to be natural. So many women seem to need to much control: scheduling their child's birthday so it's convenient with them? Our world is too fast paced so that even a pregnant woman doesn't want to just wait to labor to be induced naturally; instead they want to determine exactly when it happens. Other women just have c-sections to avoid labor pains.
But c-sections have risks, along with natural births, such as bleeding out, getting infections, etc. I think women should try to let nature run its course a little more. Yes, I agree that they should have a c-section when complications arise and whatnot, but too many women are having c-sections just out of their pure convenience.
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what are abbies?
Also, there is a limit to the number of C-sections a woman's body can handle. I think it's three. But it's not like nowadays women generally have more children than that.
If they want to have a C-section out of pure convenience, they should damn well be allowed to. As long as the baby is healthy and the mother's health is assured, a woman should absolutely be allowed to have a C-section to avoid labor pains if they so desire.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to; I think women nned to think over the consequences more. Women who have multiple c-sections have high risks of complications. I know I wouldn't want a bad consequence just to get away from labor pains. After having multiple c-sections, the risk of having a hemorrhage is so much higher.
I'm sure the doctors and obstetricians performing the C-sections are making the women fully aware of their possible implications. They're not selling them in vending machines or anything.
well i my self had a c-section 3 yrs ago and i feel like if a women can gothrough a natural birth they should, the cut that i recieved is a permanent reminder of my baby which i do not mind but it was cut to low and caused infection, and it still acts up to this day. also it causes numbness and can last up to 10 years mine is still numb. when u have the child natural u can get up and hr later and be fine. i feel like if thats your choice than fine but dont do it because you want to choose the day your baby comes into the world you need to leave it to GOD to make that decision. that is what is wrong with people they have to have to much input on life.
Not every woman can go through regular birth - such as myself. I was in labor for over 28 hours with no signs of it ending when the hospital desided to give me an emergency C-section. I don't see how insurance companies would pay for a C-Section when the mother is total capable of having a natural birth - as a C-Section costs more than natural birth.
I know that many women legitimately need c-sections. My mom needed one when she had me, for medical reasons. But now people are taking it to their advantage just so they can schedule ther child's birthday and have less pain.
I think that c-sections can be a good thing if the woman is too small to have a safe labor. Someone I know pushed for 4 hours and wasnt able to have natural labor, so they took the baby c-section. Now the baby has bleeding in the brain and they don't know if he is going to be ok. She should have never been allowed to push so long, and now her baby may suffer severe consequences. Having a c-section so that your family can be there, especially if they live far away, I think is ok too. But having a c-section just to be able to pick your child's birthday is taking it a little bit too far. Let God control at least a little of it! I think natural childbirth is beautiful, and if you are able to have it, you definitely should.
Here is what I disagree with:
Many women have good, legitimate reasons for getting a c-section. It's very useful when the baby is in a breached posititon, and it's also beneficial after the woman has stuggled with labor to no avail.
I was born breech vaginally, and so where many people attending school with me. We are learning in midwifery school the various ways to deal with a breech birth...midwives typically have no problem delivering breech babies...OBs simply don't get trained in school how to do breech births anymore, that is the real reason C-sections are done for them...
Here is what I agree with:
But c-sections have risks, along with natural births, such as bleeding out, getting infections, etc. I think women should try to let nature run its course a little more. Yes, I agree that they should have a c-section when complications arise and whatnot, but too many women are having c-sections just out of their pure convenience.
Everyone in our society seems obsessed with scheduling things so they happen at the perfect time and so that they "fit" into their lives, even "magical" events such as childbirth. Why take magic and joy of finding out your child's birth date out of birth? Yes C-sections cost insurance companies more money, but doctors have no problem making something up for a woman to "legitimize" it with her insurance company since it will make his schedule a lot easier to figure out as well. Doctors are people and they want to have lives too, so if they can schedule a C-section, well that is one less birth they have to wait and be on call for.