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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In honor of all the moms who had their baby through Cesarean! Post your story!

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Seriously?  We need to “honor” moms who had c sections?  This is beyond dumb.[/quote]

No we need something to stop the insane amounts of judging that happen around birthing decisions. The day this thread started, two friends posted ways toa void having a C-Section on their facebook wall. They are not judging, they think that they are being helpful, but it is annoying to see so many "C-Sections suck" type articles when you had a C-Section.

I don't know anyone who had a C-section for convenience sake. I am told that they happen but I have yet to met someone who scheduled a C-Section to make their life easier. I do know women who scheduled induction in week 39 or 40 but that does not equate with a C Section and most of those women had vaginal births.

I think the focus should be on women giving birth in a manner which is best for the mother and the baby. I think people should stop making it sound like C Sections are awful and wrong. The articles that I see on the subject are judgemental and do nothing to help women make informed decisions regarding a healthy birth.

I think the idea is that by openly discussing C Sections and pointing to the valid reasons why women have them that we diminish the "C Sections are awful" trope and allow women to have C Sections to accept that they do happen for good reasons and that the health of the mom and baby is all that matters.

I think it is not that different then encouraging women to discuss miscarriages and menopause. It helps people understand that these are women's health issues that are important and that you are not alone. There are higher rates of depression among women who have given birth through a C Section, I can only guess that a part of that (and I am aware that there are going to be other variables) is that when people discuss birth they praise the vaginal birth and set it up on this high pedestal and then list why it is ok for those other people to have C Sections.

I am not saying that the C Section should be common place or that it is possible that there are too many being performed but that the way they are discussed, C Sections are treated as lesser and problematic and that causes people to view mothers who have had C Sections as having made a poor choice or being sorry that something went so wrong that the mother could not have a vaginal birth.[/quote]

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