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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious why C-Sections are seen as such a bad thing. I delivered vaginally for my first and it was awful. My care team was great, I just hated everything about the entire process. Seemed like a whole lot of waiting around and being in pain. And I ended up needing an episiotomy and extraction anyway, which then resulted in a bunch of scar tissue that caused problems.

Now that I'm pregnant with my second, a C section sounds pretty darn good. No labor, just go in and get the whole thing done and over with in 15 minutes. I know there's recovery, but recovery from vaginal birth sucked, too. And I know it's surgery, so there are risks associated with that, but from talking with my OB it sounds like it's a very, very small increase of risk.

So why exactly are c-sections seen as so horrible? [/quote]

On a micro, personal level, there is no problem.

On a macro level, the more popular, common and normalized C-sections become, the more physicians-in-training lose the skills needed to support vaginal births.  They train for what's normal, and if C-sections begin to outnumber vaginal births, then vaginal births will get less time and focus in the obgyn training curricula.  The issue is the loss of skill and collective knowledge on the midwifery maneuvers required to support vaginal births.

My first labor was quite long, and we ended up needing forceps.  My ob was quite open after the fact that if the ob supporting this birth was twenty years younger, they would have gone directly to the C-section since they aren't really trained to use forceps any longer as much. [/quote]

I would have wanted the option, because I would much prefer a c/s to forceps. Both sound horrible (so does every birth actually....I'm firmly in the birth sucks anyway you slice it camp and I had an absolutely horrible vaginal birth that left me permanently scarred emotionally and physically), but forceps sound infinitely worse than a c/s.[/quote]

But you DO have that option since all obs are trained to give C-sections, and if you ask for one, you could get one with little difficulty.  The issue is for those who would like a different option - as the non-C-section skills are becoming rarer and rarer.  I've had both a forceps-assisted delivery and a C-section and I'd take forceps any day.   If I chanced into a younger doctor, that option would not have been available to me, and neither would other midwifery maneuvers.  I am not against C-sections at all.  I am for a full toolbox. [/quote]

Your argument seems to be that whatever birth happens more frequently, that is the birth doctors are skilled in. But despite the fact that c sections only account for 1 in 3 births now you don't seem concerned that doctors don't have adequate skills to perform them. Even if it became 50/50 (which I do not think it will be) that would mean doctors would see vaginal births just as frequently as c sections and would of course be skilled in managing them.

You have no idea if those options would have been available to you with a younger doctor, that is purely hypothetical. And you seem to be extracting logical conclusions based on no real evidence. [/quote]

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