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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually if someone mentions that they had a C-section, I assume it was medically necessary.  I imagine very few people get elective C sections, but I could be wrong.[/quote]
Lots are elective, but any stats out there?[/quote]

How do you define elective? I was being induced a week early, my DS was showing as weighing 8 pounds at a week 37 sonogram to check if he was breech. My doctor thought that I should be induced a week early because he was showing to be so large. We went to the hospital and starte induction. I had not dialated at all. The low level idiction drugs did not improve dilation and my sons heart rate increased enough that the Nurses were worried and called the doctor. The Doctor checked and said she wass willing to try pitosin (sp) but she didn’t think that I was going to give birth vaginally given that I had not dilated at all at week 39 and the low level induction drugs were not well received by my child.

We choose a C-Section. DS was 10 pounds 2 ounces and had not made it into the birth canal. He was floating. So we could have gone home and waited and I would have had a C-Section in a few weeks and probably been 12 or 13 pounds.

Is that elective? I suppose yes but my Doctor was right, there was no way he was coming natually because he was not in the canal and not likely to get into the canal given his size.[/quote]

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