An interesting article on vaginal versus Caesarian birth.
[bbc.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.according to WHO the rate should be about 10-15%, for optimal mother baby health [apps.who.int] but its as high as 50% in some areas, and as low as a fraction of a percent in others. ive met women who wanted a c section for all sorts of reasons, but mostly convenience (timing the birth) or fear of complications from a vaginal delivery. On the whole, most every woman Ive met who has had one, says the "had to" for some special medical reason, but studies show its usually just the Drs convenience, or fear of lawsuits from the hospital industry. [cnn.com]
and also [consumerreports.org]
MarkiusMahamius
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Sep 18, 2019
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Because women Choose invasive surgical procedures over normal birth...? Really? And if they Have to have a C-section,to save mom/baby/ both, is this supposed to be supportive?
AnneWimsey
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Sep 18, 2019
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it doesnt matter if its supportive... if 10%-15% of births are c section because it makes the mom and baby healthier, why shoulddnt we try to make them even healthier by giving probiotic supplements or such?
@MarkiusMahamius I meant psychologically supportive...I have known 2 women who felt like failures because they had to have C-sections...in my life, there was a time where it was believed that once you had a C-section, you Always had to have one. The expense, (longer hospital stay, and needing help at home afterwards) for working-class families was substantial, at a time when birthh control wasn't much (douching, crummy condoms, the Rhythm Method)
@AnneWimsey do you think posting about better health outcomes is bad, if its not also "psychologically suportive"?
@MarkiusMahamius having to "save" the babies by giving them something the mother was unable to provide implies she was incompetent.
Incidentally, i just read several articles, one in AARP Magazine, that stated "do not waste your money on probiotics, they do not survive the GI tract, usually not even to the stomach". So I question who wrote this, and why.....probiotic makers, maybe?
@AnneWimsey fecal transplants (sounds horibble but its a thing) are veey successful for some diseases.
The idea that being unable to deliver a baby vaginally, made skme women feel incompetent, is really sad. Im glad ive never run into that before, i hope that belief system has faded.
@AnneWimsey
A fecal transplant is when a doctor transplants feces from a healthy donor into another person to restore the balance of bacteria in their gut. Fecal transplants may treat gastrointestinal infections and other conditions.
@MarkiusMahamius as recently as 20-ish years ago, a friend had a boy born with a port-winebirthmark on about 1/6th of his face, and the MIL asked what horrible sin the mother had committed to cause it? sigh
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