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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article explains in great detail how common maternal birth injuries are and the impact on women. Should be required reading for every expectant mom so she’s aware of what’s at stake in the delivery room and can make an informed decision about her delivery type. https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/educate/MBI

Also, I had a maternal request C section and had no issues with insurance covering it. It was only a touch more expensive than my vaginal birth was, and cheaper in total compared with the years of physical therapy and urogynecologist consults and trauma therapy from my bad vaginal birth. That one bad birth injured me and still cost me over 15K out of pocket for treatment over a number of years. I still need pelvic floor reconstruction which will likely cost 50-100K. So the C section was far cheaper, when considering big picture costs.

My OB said it’s fear mongering that insurance won’t pay for a maternal choice C section. He laughed at me when I asked if they would
Cover it and told me that he’s never had an issue with insurance paying for one. He’s been in practice for over 25 years and said it’s a bunch of NCB fear mongering.

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This article was….so eye-opening. The prevalence of some of these conditions that have no good treatment options/can’t be fixed with surgery and leave women with lifelong pain, incontinence, sexual dysfunction, etc. - just wow. Levator ani avulsion 15-25% of vaginal births?? Prolapse up to 50%? Holy shit. When I had my (unplanned) C-section, I was warned about possible complications and how common they were and had to sign a consent form. Literally no one told me about any kind of natural birth injury. It was on me to seek out that information on my own, and of course it wasn’t easy to find reliable data. [/quote]

Thanks for your response. When I gave birth to my first child 7 years ago I had read     
Our Bodies, Ourselves and Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom cover to cover, along with about a half dozen other birthing books. None of this stuff was mentioned at all. The only mention of anything I saw was in Women’s Bodies there was a brief mention of uterine prolapse as some rare thing that only old women had. So getting diagnosed with 3 forms of prolapse after that birth along with a bunch of other pelvic floor disorders I had never heard of or knew were possible was extremely traumatic. I literally spent hours every day Googling things to try and understand what had happened to me, and the only place this info was found was medical journals. Women’s health and birth websites and books did not mention any of this. That’s changed a bit in the last few years, thankfully. [/quote]

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