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[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]

I know I'm in the minority here, but I had a C-section and thought it was great (not counting the 24 hours of labor that came before it).  My recovery was really quick and painless.  However, I know others that were really in a lot of pain and couldn't even get out of bed after c-section, so I don't think that's the norm.  I think your experience sounds much worse in either case.  I will add that I had a friend who went through something similar, and then switched doctors for the next birth.  It helped a lot.  They were really cognizant of the bad experience she'd had before, and made sure it wouldn't happen again.  They were even able to do some reconstruction after the birth when she had to be stitched up a bit, and it ended up solving a lot of the problems she'd been having since the first birth.  So maybe c-section isn't the only possibility, but I wouldn't blame you one bit for going that route.[/quote]

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