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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's a major surgery op why would you put yourself through that if you don't have to? Lots of scar tissue can form too. No way.[/quote]

Lol said the poster who didn’t read the previous post. A bad vaginal birth can cause tons of scar tissue. I tore my cervix. That can cause issues getting pregnant again. My  good friend had horrible tearing and needed over 50 stitches.

You also really can’t prevent yourself from tearing or getting scar tissue in a vaginal birth, despite the bull about doing perineal massage ahead of time. It’s a roll of the dice! Consider where you’d prefer to risk having scar tissue. Inside your area where you pee and poop and have sex and wear tampons? Or on your lower abdomen and on your uterus?

Also, plenty of women who have to have emergency C sections don’t get to choose to avoid major surgery. There’s often not a lot of choice in a complicated birth, and when baby is not coming moms often do not have any say if they are having a vacuum, forceps, episiotomy, or a C if they want their child to arrive safely and healthy. [/quote]

DP.  I'm really sorry your delivery was so rough and has caused such lasting damage.   But that level of difficulty isn't the norm for a vaginal birth, just like the more severe risks of c-section (adhesions, hemorrhage,  infection) aren't common, either.  
Women should understand the risks of both forms of delivery, but they should also understand that such extreme complications aren't common.
I do agree that prolonged pushing, forceps, vacuum, etc has a much higher potential for lasting damage,  though.  [/quote]

It is this kind of dismissiveness that perpetuates women going into birth blind and thinking that these kind of injuries are rare. It perpetuates shame among women who experience such injuries and then are told when they share their experience and try to warn others of what they were not warned about and felt blindsided by that their experience was a blip, an anomaly, and that they are some rare freak who just got really unlucky (versus being a part of a community of women worldwide that are millions strong.)

Incidence of 4th degree tears: 3 percent 
Incidence of 3rd degree tears: 6 percent 
Incidence of levator ani avulsion: 10-40 percent 
Incidence of prolapse: 40 percent 
Incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injury: 6 percent 
Etc etc

I’m sorry but 1 in 20, 1 in 10, 4 in 10, means these injuries are in fact common. However they are shrouded in secrecy and I’m tired of women like you trying to stop these conversations and dismiss other women’s actual experiences. The full spectrum of outcomes needs to be shared with expectant moms so they can make informed choices. It’s not an informed choice to only hear how great vaginal
Birth is and how bad C sections are. C section surgery is major abdominal surgery, but so is pelvic floor reconstructive surgery, fistula repair surgery, bladder slings, posterior and anterior repairs, hysterectomies, and all the other corrective surgeries women suffer through in an attempt to repair injuries from vaginal delivery. [/quote]

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