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[quote=Anonymous]My point is that you should not minimize other women’s childbirth injuries, just because you got lucky and sailed through your vaginal birth ok. To ignorantly state “oh most women are fine from birth” when 200K women are having prolapse surgeries and bladder slings and hysterectomies every year is an insensitive, inaccurate and ignorant thing to say.

I’m not saying all women should have c sections. But I do think women deserve to be educated about risks and benefits of both modes of delivery. Vaginal birth as the default only makes sense if we are all having babies as we are biologically intended—around age 20. The likelihood of injury is FAR less at that age. At older ages we are far more likely to be injured, and we deserve to know that ahead of time. That means you might still want your vaginal birth, but someone else might want a scheduled c section. Both are legit choices.

There are risks and downsides to c sections. There are risks and downsides to vaginal birth. But right now obstetricians only inform women about the former. The latter is ignored, fetishized, and held up like some amazing thing. That creates shame and stigma around c sections. It promotes a false narrative, and feelings of failure among c section moms, and national hand wringing and initiatives to reduce c section rate and longer second stage labors that injure women and increased use of forceps and vacuum that also injure women, all for the goal of getting the baby out of the vagina and not the abdomen. Women with c sections are told their births are unnatural, that they won’t be able to successfully breastfeed, that they didn’t give birth the real way, and that their kid’s health and biome are permanently screwed up. It’s completely insane. Meanwhile women with injuries from vaginal birth are told “at least you avoided a c section,” and “well, you had s baby,” and then told they can just go pelvic floor PT and get a pessary or a mesh surgery to “fix” things—never mind the insane risks of mesh implants. It’s all total misogyny. Birth has a cost and many women pay the price. It’s disgusting to me that you would minimize any of this. [/quote]

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