“A Caesarean delivery more than triples a woman’s risk of dying in childbirth compared to a vaginal birth, according to a new study from France… all of the deaths followed births of a single child and were not due to conditions existing prior to delivery. The women had also not been hospitalized during pregnancy.” MORE HEREÂ
The rate of elective caesareans never ceases to amaze me. A c-section is a major surgery. There are risks to every major surgery. Of course there are times where the risk of surgery is less than the risk of complications to a natural delivery. But to elect to have a major surgery that makes your recovery more difficult and puts you at risk of dying of infection or blood clots?
It’s really crazy isn’t it? You want to have heard the surgeon talk to me about it and a normal delivery, as if the two were both equal and normal methods of delivery.
Having had one C/S and one homebirth I know which I’d prefer again :0)
the elective sectinos freaks me out, too.
i bet you’re wondering what a “sectino” is.
I wonder what the factors were in the study…I know a lot of doctors are still hesitant to endorse VBAC’s, and others are hesitant to encourage bearing children after two or more C/S’s…my mom had one for me after laboring for almost 2 days, then scheduled my Greg and Becca…I remember them leaving for the hospital to have Becca and it being like they were going on vacation – my mom carried her suitcase out the door! Later, seeing all this “woman-in-labor” drama on TV as I grew up was sort of strange to me. I thought, “Wow…my mom can handle pain!” After Becca the dr. recommended no more Bourgeois siblings because three sections were already pushing it. And, of course, VBAC was out of the question, I guess.
We have one lady in our church who delivered 6 kids with 5 sections, and another who’s about to have her 5th section!
that’s a lot of scar tissue.