Why a C-Section?

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Hi everyone, I was just wondering why so many women are choosing to undergo ceasarean delivery without even a trial of labor? Don't they realize it is a major abdominal surgery and they will be in severe pain for several weeks? I know that it is a very necessary procedure sometimes, but it just seems so overdone and unnecessary sometimes. I'd love to hear from you!

I think its hilarious, being that I have dumbo ears!! Lighten up!!

Do you actually think I run around making fun of little kids and others with deformities? I think you are being a little too sensitive if this part of my entire is the one phrase you decided to focus on. Did you even read the entire thing? This really was not the main point of my post.

If someone were to make fun of my child outright, sure it would bother me. But, remember...sticks and stones!

Since you didn't state in your initial comment that you were referring to yourself, it appeared to be a generalization.

And I did read your entire post...all of them, in fact.

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I am glad you appreciated my opinion.:)

Christina RN

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I realize this is a hot topic of debate, and everyone has a differing opinion. There is a lot of great food for thought here---on all sides of this issue. For the most part, this has been a respectful and thoughtful thread. Let's keep it that way----and when we can't agree, just agree to disagree. Attacking one another directly is not tolerated on allnurses.com.

Thanks for understanding!

deb

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If the patient were having complications of course we don't send them home at 48 hours after a c-section but if they are ambulatory, on po meds, bottle feeding, voiding and have had a BM, why should they stay in the hospital? Even if the baby is having to stay mom can be discharged to self care, she can stay in her room as long as we have space and get 3 meals a day. She provides her own meds, etc, no nursing care.

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Hi y'all,

I believe all the fuss about C/S is due to the fear of labour.Although the pain post surgery is more than that after a normal delivery i.e. due to the long duration of recovery,women want to remain as taut as possible down there.

Let them do as they choose after getting the truth.:imbar

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Hi y'all, women want to remain as taut as possible down there.

That is hilarious! Do people really worry about that? I had my first baby as a 23 year old single mom and that thought never once crossed my mind (and never seemed to bother any of the men I dated one bit). I never noticed any difference before/after.

Now, no one is going to feel like a 16 yr old virgin again after enjoying all kinds of sex for years and years and popping out a few babies. However, the perineal area has muscles just like everywhere else and is going to snap back better if you are young and have good overall nutrition/skin tone and exercise it (kegels).

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That is hilarious! Do people really worry about that? I had my first baby as a 23 year old single mom and that thought never once crossed my mind (and never seemed to bother any of the men I dated one bit). I never noticed any difference before/after.

Now, no one is going to feel like a 16 yr old virgin again after enjoying all kinds of sex for years and years and popping out a few babies. However, the perineal area has muscles just like everywhere else and is going to snap back better if you are young and have good overall nutrition/skin tone and exercise it (kegels).

From my perspective...I was not concerned with tone down there. I ended up having a c-section...the lady parts issue didn't even dawn on me until my mom made a joke about it saying..."You'll have the lady parts of a teenager forever!" BTW my mom had 5 kids lady partslly.

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I have never considered the whole idea of keeping my lady parts taut as a reason to have a c-section. Honestly, if any man ever suggested that to me I would think he was a completely perverted freak.

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I have never considered the whole idea of keeping my lady parts taut as a reason to have a c-section. Honestly, if any man ever suggested that to me I would think he was a completely perverted freak.

Having 3 vag deliveries didn't change things one iota - it all goes back to normal afterwards. That is the weirdest old wive's tale I've ever heard. :rolleyes:

steph

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had two c/s due to complications with the baby and health problems. i would have much rather had a lady partsl birth (and the much less painful recoveries...) the first time around, i had plenty of education about vb but very little about cs because i really wanted that first vb to be perfect... i was under the subconscious impression that a c/s would be a feminine failure on my part.

that view was only reinforced when i took my baby in for immunizations and i had a nurse at the health dept berate me for having a c/s the second time around. not friendly education, not asking about the situation, not knowing me from anyone else... just "i can't believe your doctor forced you into that... that is so unsafe; didn't you know that you could have had a lady partsl birth after a c section?" on and on she went without once asking my opinion or verifying her statements. i felt defensive and angry... why should anyone have to be talked to like this and, to make it worse, in the middle of a crowded hall? why should her opinion be forced on me?

i only wish i could go back and do something or say something to that person but i was too surprised, too stunned to say anything...

every person is entitled to his or her opinion but with our patients, shouldn't our duty be educating the patient, preferably beforehand, so she can make the best personal health care choice? why do some people feel the need to attack a personal choice? i agree that c/s should not be used as an elective procedure however i also think it's a little late to educate patients after the fact.

heather

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had two c/s due to complications with the baby and health problems. i would have much rather had a lady partsl birth (and the much less painful recoveries...) the first time around, i had plenty of education about vb but very little about cs because i really wanted that first vb to be perfect... i was under the subconscious impression that a c/s would be a feminine failure on my part.

that view was only reinforced when i took my baby in for immunizations and i had a nurse at the health dept berate me for having a c/s the second time around. not friendly education, not asking about the situation, not knowing me from anyone else... just "i can't believe your doctor forced you into that... that is so unsafe; didn't you know that you could have had a lady partsl birth after a c section?" on and on she went without once asking my opinion or verifying her statements. i felt defensive and angry... why should anyone have to be talked to like this and, to make it worse, in the middle of a crowded hall? why should her opinion be forced on me?

i only wish i could go back and do something or say something to that person but i was too surprised, too stunned to say anything...

every person is entitled to his or her opinion but with our patients, shouldn't our duty be educating the patient, preferably beforehand, so she can make the best personal health care choice? why do some people feel the need to attack a personal choice? i agree that c/s should not be used as an elective procedure however i also think it's a little late to educate patients after the fact.

heather

no one expects the spanish inquisition

your post just drives home the message of "different strokes for different folks" and although everyone is entitled to an oppinion, as health care workers we should be sensitive to the patient for which they choose, and educate not criticize. so sorry for your experience.

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I hate how childbirth is portrayed as an agonizing curse that can only be made bearable with heavy painkillers. Yes, c/s are necessary in some cases, but it's definately overdone. I have not have kids, but whenever I hear about a story like Britney's, I think about my mother, who is a tiny Asian woman, 90 lbs soaking wet, 4'11, wears size 00 jeans like a burlap sack, no hips or breasts, yet she had 6 children, some over 9 lbs, one of them a twin birth, with no drugs and only spent 2 1/2 hours in labor (light contractions till birth) after the her first kid, who took 14 hours. I hope that I have quick, easy labors like hers. I think that her mentality had a lot to do with it. She wasn't scared and enjoyed pregnancy and childbirth every step of the way.

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