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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had two emergency c-sections. Either my kids or I would be dead without them, so I don't see any problem.[/quote]

I mean, same…I would be dead or my first daughter would be dead without my first C-section, but I think it’s more than OK that I did, in fact, experience “problems” with post-surgery infection complications and subsequent rehospitalization/tough recovery. Do you get that most cancer patients are grateful to be alive, but many of them still “had a problem” with the difficulties of chemo or major surgery?[/quote]

I don’t think pp was personally attacking you lady. Everyone has their perspective on this. Certainly c sections aren’t a walk in the park but once the 8 pound parasite has lodged itself in your stomachs the options for removal are all unpleasant.[/quote]

NP. Equating all birth experiences as “unpleasant” is unproductive and diminishes the pain and suffering of women all over the world. I have had two friends with extremely harrowing emergency C-sections. In one case, it was a scenario that the hospital staff had trained for but had never actually had to perform in person. It had a specific code. In another case, a friend had a C-section and the baby was born dead, she passed out, and woke up not knowing that her baby had been brought back to life. She has PTSD about the experience to this day, and is in therapy to this day.

“Unpleasant” and “has PTSD with flashbacks requiring therapy” are different. I’m not going to sit here and act like we can just call all birth experiences “unpleasant” and call it a day. What a disservice to women and to the medical field.[/quote]

I feel I must add the PTSD case was an extremely emergent C-section, so there was long labor, lots of pain, panic and fear going in that added to the PTSD. So it wasn’t just “a” C-section, it was an emergency that was very complicated.[/quote]

That is terrible for your friend, but we're any of these issues caused by the C-section? I had a preemie/NICU baby who had to be re-hospitalized and it was all very traumatic but those issues weren't because of the C-section. It's generally the opposite -- pregnancy/baby issues are the reason for the C-section.[/quote]

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