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NervousNell
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Re: food for thought ... csection article
Posted by Dani10
eek... you are all scaring me.
Seriously I can't sleep at night thinking of these things.
I can cry right now thinking about how scared I am.
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Re: food for thought ... csection article
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Posted by Dani10
eek... you are all scaring me.
Seriously I can't sleep at night thinking of these things.
I can cry right now thinking about how scared I am.
Please don't be scared. This is something that women have been doing for centuries. Women who had NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE DOING, were still able to give birth to beautiful. perfect babies.
And now, we get to be surrounded by every modern convenience. We have doctors and nurses there to safeguard our lives, and our babies' lives. We have sterile and safe environments to deliver in. If we choose so, we have many pain relief options available to us.
And if we are not able to deliver on our own, our doctors are ready to step in - almost like a SWAT team - and take over. They can perform emergency c/sections in moments if there is an emergency.
I know how hard it is to go through this experience with anxiety as I suffer from it as well. But we have so little to worry about and SO MUCH to look forward to!
Disclaimer: I swear, I am not a hippie! Just someone trying to avoid anxiety medication and be positive about this whole experience
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| Posted 1/27/10 4:31 PM |
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Momma2Be
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Re: food for thought ... csection article
Posted by mrskparetta
in many countries women can just elect for no medically neccesary reason. I was speaking with a woman from Brazil and she said that almost all women elect to have csections  some even at 36 weeks!
Funny enough, we were discussing this in my lamaze class on Friday. My instructor said that the c-section rate in Brazil is almost at 90% 
She told us about a Brazilian woman here in the States that delivered vaginally and when she called her relatives in Brazil to let them know, they asked her what went wrong that she couldn't get a c-section!
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Re: food for thought ... csection article
C-sections are almost 50% in parts of the US (LI included). I think Winthrop's rate is above 40%. It's unreal to me.......but most doctors are all for it because of convenience. Has anyone even seen The Business of Being Born? It's a good documentary, based in NYC, but very informative. It's why I chose a midwife instead of an OB.
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Re: food for thought ... csection article
Posted by NinasMommy
I have no doubt in my mind that if you asked your OB for an elective C-section that they would give you one. I really have very little faith in a lot of MD's anymore. Their malpractice insurance is ridiculous nowadays and they need to make up the difference somehow. They make double the $$ from a C then from a vaginal birth.
I begging my doctor for a c-section after the first 10 hours of labor and she refused. I begged after 20 hours of labor and she refused again. Finally after 30 hours and still no dilation past 4cm she relented because it was clear my DD was not coming out any other way. Not all doctors are ready to jump on the c/section bandwagon.
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Re: food for thought ... csection article
"Elective" means non-emergency.
An elective C-section can be due to:
- breech baby (or bad position baby)
- failure to grow baby
- 2 or more babies
- repeat C-S
- huge baby
- failure to progress in labor
- medical problems with mom
- medical problems with baby
- ruptured membranes for over a certain amount of time...etc.
Most doctors will do a C-S only for a reason.
In some places outside of the US, medical care is the wild-west. That African woman would have probably died anyway (though the $$ issue was terrible). A ruptured uterus is an extremely dangerous emergency... even if you are in a top hospital and get an immediate C-S. That's why I would never do a home birth.
IMO, lawsuits have a lot to do with why there are so many "urgent" or "emergency" C-sections in the US. In certain places, the malpractice insurance is higher than the amount of $$ the OB brings in... so if there is a sign of anything going wrong, the Ob will pick the "safe" route for the baby and themselves (and with more monitoring these signs are pretty frequent).
BUT on the very bright side, the death rate of women giving birth (and their babies) has really been decreasing, even though older and sicker people are now giving birth. "Died during childbirth" is no longer a common thing to write on your gravestone....
Message edited 1/28/2010 8:46:46 AM.
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NervousNell
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Re: food for thought ... csection article
I know - you are 100% right.
I keep telling myself that millions and billions of women do this and have done it before me.
I have always had such bad medical anxiety about every little thing and this is by far the biggest thing I have had to go through thus far.
I know I'll be ok.
It's more the unknown that I'm fearing.
But I also try to remind myself that so many women go back and do it again- 2, 3 or even more times.
So it can't be that horrendous right? 
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