Babble

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...