C- Section Awareness Month

[Anonymous]

I had an emergency C-section, and I genuinely don't care what anyone thinks about it or says about it.

I don't understand attention-seeking "campaigns" like this. If you don't want people debating or judging or even misunderstanding what goes on in your life, you don't have to share personal information with them.

Am I the only one who genuinely doesn't care about birth experiences? You had a baby, great. I really don't care to know more. I don't feel compelled to "share my story." Babies are born every day.

[Anonymous]

Can’t compregend these mean comments people are making to c section moms. I actually like people’s birth stories, and I also think my own c section was pretty interesting and very special and happy. Maybe if you’re in a conversation with a mom who is being condescending about your c section, just be honest about your experience and treat it like any other birth story. Also remember if your c section was a bad experience, I know plenty of moms whose vaginal births were bad experiences. No birth type has the monopoly on good OR bad experiences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section, and I genuinely don't care what anyone thinks about it or says about it.

I don't understand attention-seeking "campaigns" like this. If you don't want people debating or judging or even misunderstanding what goes on in your life, you don't have to share personal information with them.

Am I the only one who genuinely doesn't care about birth experiences? You had a baby, great. I really don't care to know more. I don't feel compelled to "share my story." Babies are born every day.

+ 1. Can we save the awareness for people who are actually suffering?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually if someone mentions that they had a C-section, I assume it was medically necessary. I imagine very few people get elective C sections, but I could be wrong.

Lots are elective, but any stats out there?

How do you define elective? I was being induced a week early, my DS was showing as weighing 8 pounds at a week 37 sonogram to check if he was breech. My doctor thought that I should be induced a week early because he was showing to be so large. We went to the hospital and starte induction. I had not dialated at all. The low level idiction drugs did not improve dilation and my sons heart rate increased enough that the Nurses were worried and called the doctor. The Doctor checked and said she wass willing to try pitosin (sp) but she didn’t think that I was going to give birth vaginally given that I had not dilated at all at week 39 and the low level induction drugs were not well received by my child.

We choose a C-Section. DS was 10 pounds 2 ounces and had not made it into the birth canal. He was floating. So we could have gone home and waited and I would have had a C-Section in a few weeks and probably been 12 or 13 pounds.

Is that elective? I suppose yes but my Doctor was right, there was no way he was coming natually because he was not in the canal and not likely to get into the canal given his size.

[Anonymous]

SAHM here. I can't tell you how often the subject of natural birth versus vaginal birth with epidural versus c-section comes up when I'm around other moms during the week. People want a medal if they had a natural child birth and they want everyone to know. I've also heard a number of moms tell me to watch the video "The Business of Being Born" because I've been told that doctors push c-sections to drive up cost. Huge damn eye roll. Give birth to your baby in any method SO IT LIVES. End of story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAHM here. I can't tell you how often the subject of natural birth versus vaginal birth with epidural versus c-section comes up when I'm around other moms during the week. People want a medal if they had a natural child birth and they want everyone to know. I've also heard a number of moms tell me to watch the video "The Business of Being Born" because I've been told that doctors push c-sections to drive up cost. Huge damn eye roll. Give birth to your baby in any method SO IT LIVES. End of story.

That is so annoying. I know two people who’ve had unmediated births. Neither of them is a model of health, physical or mental. They are just lucky. And actually, they aren’t that lucky, bc one of them had about 5 miscarriages and the other can’t breastfeed, so I’m not sure why I’m supposed to consider them some kind of birth goddess. They are just lucky that their babies came out fast, on time, without much pain. It’s nothing worthy of a medal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section, and I genuinely don't care what anyone thinks about it or says about it.

I don't understand attention-seeking "campaigns" like this. If you don't want people debating or judging or even misunderstanding what goes on in your life, you don't have to share personal information with them.

Am I the only one who genuinely doesn't care about birth experiences? You had a baby, great. I really don't care to know more. I don't feel compelled to "share my story." Babies are born every day.

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I understand where you're coming from, but it's also helpful to keep in mind that in the United States there is a lot of room for improvement in pre- and postnatal healthcare. Yes, babies are born everyday and most mothers have normal recoveries, but not everyone makes it.

More power to you if you don't want to share your own story, but don't dismiss the stories of women who have experienced serious, and often preventable, labor ordeals. We can do better if we have more knowledge (not just about c-sections, but many other issues affecting maternal health).

https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section, and I genuinely don't care what anyone thinks about it or says about it.

I don't understand attention-seeking "campaigns" like this. If you don't want people debating or judging or even misunderstanding what goes on in your life, you don't have to share personal information with them.

Am I the only one who genuinely doesn't care about birth experiences? You had a baby, great. I really don't care to know more. I don't feel compelled to "share my story." Babies are born every day.

'


I understand where you're coming from, but it's also helpful to keep in mind that in the United States there is a lot of room for improvement in pre- and postnatal healthcare. Yes, babies are born everyday and most mothers have normal recoveries, but not everyone makes it.

More power to you if you don't want to share your own story, but don't dismiss the stories of women who have experienced serious, and often preventable, labor ordeals. We can do better if we have more knowledge (not just about c-sections, but many other issues affecting maternal health).

https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers

Then put it in Health and have a specific point in your original post. ***We need to be awaaaaareeeee and tell our storrriiiesss*** is, to me, just more attention-seeking in the social media age. -Mom who experienced 2 C-sections

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section, and I genuinely don't care what anyone thinks about it or says about it.

I don't understand attention-seeking "campaigns" like this. If you don't want people debating or judging or even misunderstanding what goes on in your life, you don't have to share personal information with them.

Am I the only one who genuinely doesn't care about birth experiences? You had a baby, great. I really don't care to know more. I don't feel compelled to "share my story." Babies are born every day.

'


I understand where you're coming from, but it's also helpful to keep in mind that in the United States there is a lot of room for improvement in pre- and postnatal healthcare. Yes, babies are born everyday and most mothers have normal recoveries, but not everyone makes it.

More power to you if you don't want to share your own story, but don't dismiss the stories of women who have experienced serious, and often preventable, labor ordeals. We can do better if we have more knowledge (not just about c-sections, but many other issues affecting maternal health).

https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers

Then put it in Health and have a specific point in your original post. ***We need to be awaaaaareeeee and tell our storrriiiesss*** is, to me, just more attention-seeking in the social media age. -Mom who experienced 2 C-sections

Sorry, I wasn't the original poster. I just read a few comments and was surprised that people are so willfully disinterested in maternal health issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section, and I genuinely don't care what anyone thinks about it or says about it.

I don't understand attention-seeking "campaigns" like this. If you don't want people debating or judging or even misunderstanding what goes on in your life, you don't have to share personal information with them.

Am I the only one who genuinely doesn't care about birth experiences? You had a baby, great. I really don't care to know more. I don't feel compelled to "share my story." Babies are born every day.

'


I understand where you're coming from, but it's also helpful to keep in mind that in the United States there is a lot of room for improvement in pre- and postnatal healthcare. Yes, babies are born everyday and most mothers have normal recoveries, but not everyone makes it.

More power to you if you don't want to share your own story, but don't dismiss the stories of women who have experienced serious, and often preventable, labor ordeals. We can do better if we have more knowledge (not just about c-sections, but many other issues affecting maternal health).

Then let's worry about Black women dying in childbirth at far greater rates than white women. Let's not rally around FB posts about women acting like they deserve medals for giving birth.

https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers

Then put it in Health and have a specific point in your original post. ***We need to be awaaaaareeeee and tell our storrriiiesss*** is, to me, just more attention-seeking in the social media age. -Mom who experienced 2 C-sections

Sorry, I wasn't the original poster. I just read a few comments and was surprised that people are so willfully disinterested in maternal health issues.

[Anonymous]

You know what I’m tired of hearing about? VBAC Heroes.

[Anonymous]

My friend Ellen just had a c section. We are taking over some lasagna tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know what I’m tired of hearing about? VBAC Heroes.

Amen!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know what I’m tired of hearing about? VBAC Heroes.

Amen!!

Yessss!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know what I’m tired of hearing about? VBAC Heroes.

Amen!!

Yessss!!!!

Have to agree. When I was trying to decide whether to try vbac the doc told me “ you don’t get a medal for doing a vbac.” Thought about it for a min and realized damn, so true. Why make things more complicated?