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...

ladybug: I haven't come across an unbiased resource for determining relative outcomes of the various childbirthing methods. Everyone has an agenda it seems. I've done a lot of work in this area and can confidently say that the Childbirth Connection (formerly Maternity Center Association) resources on...

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...

bookworm: Also, what's with the multiple comments about how great a c-section is because the baby has a round head? I'm so glad someone said that. WTF? I'm all for cesareans when they are necessary or if someone really, truly makes that informed choice. But there's something really anti-vagina going...

I actually think that the issue of "elective" cesarean is a ploy that doctors have come up with to distract attention from the real reasons that cesareans are on the rise - i.e. too much medical intervention in normal, low-risk labors. The only (literally the ONLY) study that ever looked at women's choices...

I've read all of the previous posts and still am not sure why anyone would choose and elective CS. If you don't want pain, get an epidural. (And its worth mentioning that with natural labor (or even decidedly UNnatural labor with an epidural)) the pain ends when the labor ends. With a CS you can still...

I ''planned'' to be numb from the neck down and once I was beyond my due date, I was scheduled to be induced. My water ended up breaking naturally the morning of the induction and to put it mildly, my son's birth was nothing, at all, like I planned or wanted. It was many, many hours of unmedicated labor...

With questions like these, I always feel like "who am I to judge?" because what works for me may not work for anyone else. I wanted to have a drug-free NCB, but found out at 38 weeks my daughter was in breech position, with the placenta on top and the umbilical cord between her legs along with low amniotic...

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...