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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet birth defect rates are not decreasing, although c-section rates have skyrocketed.  Maybe people should accept that there are no guarantees in life, and especially in childbirth.[/quote]

I think this gets to the heart of the matter, and I think it's too frightening for most people to accept. I couldn't shake a chilling feeling throughout my pregnancy that something was looming; we did both survive thanks to a c section. We otherwise would have been in a very bad place.

No one wants to hear what you're saying, though all expectant mothers and fathers should. [/quote]

This is very true. We all want to believe that if everyone does everything right, we will all have healthy children.  The reality is is that we really don't have much control at all.  We can have the best prenatal care, eat and drink all the right foods, etc have all the best prenatal tests (and even terminate and try again if we have a bad result) and we STILL are not guaranteed a healthy child.  Many of us with seemingly healthy babies and toddlers right now will find out down the road that our child has some health or learning issue or another...hopefully minor but for some of us, it may be major, life-altering or even life-threatening. Some of our children will be permanently injured due to accidents.  Many mental illnesses dont appear until puberty or young adulthood .  We will never be able to test and predict every problem. Parenting is NOT for the feint of heart. 
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