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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys realize CS have serious risks to them? Not just now but in the future? Recovering from a bad tear isn't easy but how do you think they get the baby out in a CS? They cut open your abdomen and uterus. That's a much bigger and more serious wound.

I'm a midwife and I see women who've had serious tears not even need repairing the second time. I'd choose a vaginal birth and ask that my provider do good perineal support and let me lead pushing rather than direct it themselves. [/quote]

Just about everyone recovers from a C-section, especially a scheduled C-section after a routine pregnancy, without incident. I've had a third-degree tear, and I've had a C-section, and I'd choose the latter again in a heartbeat.

There's no gold medal for vaginal birth, OP. Despite what midwives might claim.[/quote]
This is nonsense. First off, more women die, almost die, and have major complications from c-sections than they do from vaginal birth (in this country, not in less developed areas where the c-section rates are still too low). So yeah if the surgery goes well, super, you've saved your pelvic floor (I guess, although many women with c-sections still have painful sex and incontinence because of pregnancy and hormonal changes). And if you only need one, the first c-section is usually simple and straightforward. They get more and more dangerous the more of them you have. For you and your baby.

I could post data and stats but this makes a much better case I think.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/05/im-an-ob-gyn-i-dont-think-most-babies-should-be-born-in-the-hopsital
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Let's talk PP because you clearly have an agenda to push and you're not doing it very well. 
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All of this is not to say that Cesarean delivery is not without risk, as it certainly is. But you need to stop with this "natural birth" dogma and ideology, Cesarean fear mongering, and medical paternalism. Women need to have all the information they deserve without bias so they can make the best decisions for themselves and their families and supported no matter what decision they make and whatever outcome they have.

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PP really wasn't pushing an agenda. I'm done childbearing (I just hang out here sometimes for fun) and had section and two vaginal births. C-section [i]is[/i] more dangerous in terms of maternal health and life, it just is. There's no sense in denying it.

That doesn't mean OP shouldn't choose it, especially a planned one. I bid you peace and good luck, OP. [/quote]

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