Babble

Hi I'm Laura, also going under the user name Sapphos. My husband and I have a daughter who was just born last month, December 26, 2006, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where we've spent the last year taking advantage of affordable and excellent maternity care. My husband is French, so our daughter will have...

hyperjo: I haven't come across an unbiased resource for determining relative outcomes of the various childbirthing methods. Everyone has an agenda it seems. Everyone tells us to be informed, but when I read homebirthing/med-free resources, I get one set of statistics and when I go to the doctor, I get...

I think "evil" is too strong a term. I think that c-sections should be the second choice wherever reasonable and possible, just like formula. But thank god and all the angels in heaven above we have these alternatives avaliable to us when in a pinch. And your definition of a pinch might completely conflict...

I had what I guess one would call an "elective" C-section. My son was in the breech position...and I had the choice of being induced 3 weeks early and having the doctors try to turn him...which could end up in an emergency C or being scheduled for a c-section a few days before my due date. I opted for...

I think whatever someone wants to do regarding their birth experience is their own business. I wanted a natural birth but ended up having an emergency C-Section and was very upset about it...like I missed out on something. I wonder if women who choose a C-Section from the start feel like they missed...