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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anecdotal story...my dear friend had a 3rd degree tear with her first baby in Germany, but she didn’t know/understand the medical implication at the time. She was an American newly wed in her husband’s country. For her second birth, the hospital here, received her records AFTER she already delivered with no tears, a healthy full term baby...and her doctor came in and told her on day 2pp if he had seen her chart he would have recommended a c-section, but clearly she didn’t need it. She went on to have four kids total, and the last one was a c-section. Better for her body and her family planning overall to have had those three vaginal births and 1 c-birth than to have attempted 3+ surgeries. [/quote]

OMG There is so much judgement in this post. "Better for her body and family planning." Well guess what, would you still be saying that if her vaginal delivery did not go well and she ended up with 4th degree tear, fistula, levator avulsion, prolapse, incontinence, pelvic pain, etc. Does she leak when she coughs or runs?  How is her sex life? Does she suffer from laxity or dyspareunia? Does she have to wear a pessary due to prolapse? Can she still control gas? The reality is that you just don't know.

I am so sick of the women on these boards pushing the "vaginal is best" ideology. . There are risks and benefits to everything and that includes emergency Caesarean, scheduled Caesarean, instrumental delivery, unmedicated delivery, medicated delivery. There is no perfect way to have a baby and all delivery modes have risks and benefits. But atom demonizing Caesarean sections and holding up vaginal birth like the holy freaking grail. Let OP decide based on science and reason, not dogma and ideology. There's a reason 30 percent of OBs have scheduled Caesarean sections so let's stop pretending like vaginal is not without its own risks and complications. [/quote]

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