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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you blaming patients for something that's pretty much beyond their control? Blame doctors. Blame hospitals. Insurance. Because when they come to you, in deep labor or pregnancy, and say "do this or your baby might die," what the hell do you think 99.999% of mothers are going to do? You got problems with the c-section rate? I do. But that's something beyond the control of the patient, and[b] the 100% truly elective c-section is pretty much a rhinoceros. Real, but super uncommon.[/b][/quote]

NP here: I'm your rhinoceros.  I elected a c-section with no medical reason, unless you want to count my severe aversion to vaginal birth as some kind of mental health issue.  I note that not only am I the first maternal choice c-section on this 11-page post -- other than the lady living abroad, which I think is an unusual circumstance -- but also the only one I've met in person: we're pretty rare.  However, fully half of my Mamistad meet-up group for first-time moms had c-sections; about half of those were for breech babies and the other half for failure to progress.  FWIW, I had a great birth experience, short hospital stay, and exclusively breastfed with no issues.

I hope this helps OP with whatever her question is.  I don't understand the hand-wringing about the c-section rate in the abstract, and wish the conversation was about the harm caused by unnecessary c-sections (whatever you think that harm is) because a percentage by itself is meaningless.  It's like saying the percentage of homeowners is too high -- too high for what?  We should be talking about effects, not rates.[/quote]

Semantics [/quote]

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