Ladies: Natural birth or caesarian section?

[Dictator]

Most people here have private medical insurance. The medical insurance will pay for elective c-sections even if they are not medically indicated. This means that the upper class who can afford medical insurance mostly have babies by c-section and the lower classes who don't have medical insurance only have caesars if it is medically indicated.

I feel that if a woman is capable of giving birth naturally she should do so. It forms part of the bonding process. It is the way nature intended it to be.

Sorry Kazi, I'll have to disagree with you. We, humans, don't follow the exact "rules of Nature" that our ancestors did.
There are people today that don't die when they should. We created medicines and surgeries and various other things that aren't meant to exist in the "natural world". C-section is still a surgery, and I don't think how it can affect the bonding process if the mother can still interact with the baby. Women shouldn't feel obliged to feel the pain of birth just because it's "nature", tbh. C-section exists and makes life easier, and shouldn't be condemned, even if some mothers still want to do it in the old way.

[rhiannon]

Really, the only opinions that matter in this discussion are the opinions of those who've actually birthed children, or who are currently pregnant and facing the prospect of childbirth in their near future. Sorry, but until you've been in or are going to be in the situation yourself, you have no rational basis from which to make your assessment.

That said....the fact I had my son by scheduled csection (I had many complications and risk factors that would have made for a disastrous vaginal birth) probably saved my life...and his, too. Try spitting out a 10.5lb baby when you're 40 and see how well that goes for ya

[Dictator]

Really, the only opinions that matter in this discussion are the opinions of those who've actually birthed children. Sorry, but until you've been in the situation yourself, you have no rational basis from which to make your assessment.

That said....the fact I had my son by scheduled csection (I had many complications and risk factors that would have made for a disastrous vaginal birth) probably saved my life...and his, too. Try spitting out a 10.5lb baby when you're 40 and see how well that goes for ya

I came from the insides of a woman so I think I can talk 'bout it because I was there.

[Aviator]

A big problem is that people are having children at older ages. Not that this is inherently bad, but women are better suited for a natural birth when they are young.

[Harley]

I labored for 6-7 hours before the doctor deemed it too dangerous for the both of us for me to keep trying for natural. Procedure took about 30 minutes and I snored loudly through the whole process.

Caesarean took forever for me to heal from. I had to stop taking the pain meds second day so I could be mobile faster and breast feed.

About 3-4 months for the bleeding to stop completely from the wound.

Another year or so before I stopped feeling the cut.

Should I ever do this again, trying for natural. The odds I can pull that off are low.

[Oneeye]

Women can be induced for labor without resorting to a caesarean. I think there is another driving factor for it....

[random]

No anal birth ?

[Also]

Natural birth whenever possible is the best way.

[rhiannon]

A big problem is that people are having children at older ages. Not that this is inherently bad, but women are better suited for a natural birth when they are young.

This is true, and I can attest to having undergone a horrendous natural birth experience with my 9lb daughter back when I was 19. It seems I do not have the best pelvic shape for dropping out babies, and so my babies are turned posteriorly at presentation. This is very bad during labor as it brings about back labor.....the WORST kind. It's what I had with my daughter....and they wouldn't medicate me because she had decels during the laboring process.

While physically it is harder to birth children when you're older, mentally, emotionally, and psychologically, parenting as an older parent is oftentimes going to be more beneficial to the child. I am a much better parent today than I was all those years ago with my daughter. I damn well should be by this age, or else I've not grown at all as a person.

With all that said, my recovery from my son's csection was rapid, and my son was born absolutely perfect . He had a mild case of transient tachypnea of the newborn which resolved itself in a matter of hours.

[Farah]

I love children but I find pregnancy as a wholeto be a horrifying process.

Isn't C-section supposed to be more painful afterwards during recovery?

I would support natural birth (w/help of drugs) over induced c-section.