C-section may complicate next pregnancies (Reuters)

Reuters - Cesarean delivery performed in a first pregnancy appears to increase the risk of complications in later pregnancies, researchers have shown.

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I hate stories like this. Most women only have a c-section if medically necessary and then to be told that they may then have more complications next pregnancy will seem like a double blow. Government departments are always talking about how there should be fewer c-sections and the media writes stories suggesting that women have this major operation because they don't want to go through a normal labour - I've seen the phrase "too posh to push" used; they seem to want to make women who need a c-section feel bad.
Feeding is another area where the media seem to want to give women guilt trips - just so many stories about how mothers are failing if they don't breastfeed.

When will everyone realise that the goal is to have a happy healthy baby and a happy healthy mum and if that requires c-sections, special care and formula milk then there is nothing wrong with that and no-one should feel bad.

Between us my sister-in-law (Elke) and I have 4 boys. E had two c-sections -she's small and her babies were 8lb 12oz and 10lb 6oz. My boys were both a month early and were standard deliveries but until 3 days before he was born Freddie was breech and until he somersaulted the doctors were telling me I'd need a c-section. My boys needed 5 and 10 days in special care, my nephews were home in 3 days so I probably cost the health service more. E breastfed her boys for 6 months. I breastfed my eldest for 10 months and my youngest for 1 year but he had formula as well (as a bedtime feed given to him by his daddy.) All four boys are healthy and happy so who's to say that any of our choices/needs were wrong.

So society/scientists/media/government need to stop giving mothers a hard time.

Yep I know, I'm ranting again

don't fret. seems some people are always trying to fit everything into neat little packages. and nobody actually fits in them at all!

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~ ~ ~ "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
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when i had kidlet, 14 years ago, the 'buzz' was that there were too many c-sections occurring and that the medical profession was at fault

i know that my pelvis is very narrow.......... i had been told that many years prior, and i had been told that i would have to have a c-section, should i decide to have kids

well, back to kidlet....... i had been in pre-labour and labour for about 72 hours when i showed up at the maternity ward in the hospital with my contractions 2 min long and 2 min apart............ the nurses put me into a delivery room, prepped me all around, including a fetal monitor on kidlets head, and i promptly stopped labour.............this was at 9am

the ob'gyn came around at noon and i asked him if i could just have a c-section and be done with this

he told me that i would be having a natural delivery

i got the epidural installed (finally) and that stopped the labour even more than it had already (this is common), so they added a drip to induce me

at 7:18 pm the fetal heartbeat STOPPED, and i was rushed to the OR for an emergency c-section, they got a surgeon out of another OR suite, and brought him straight into the room i was in.......... kidlet was born at 7:24pm ..................... he had got stuck in the birth canal (thank goodness) and the cord was wrapped 16 times around his neck

if it had been a 'natural delivery' he would have died

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kate

My Josh was a c-section too. Narrow pelvis.

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~~~~Becky

~ ~ ~ "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~ ~ ~ Anais Ain

Kate and Becky you both had c-sections because you needed them (like the vast majority of mothers who have them) but in the UK the media seems to spend a lot of time saying that everyone who has a c-section is doing so on a whim and so wasting resources and money. I've seen a new mum face a lot of hostility from other mums because she had a c-section. I just wish that the media here would stop making out that most c-sections are unnecessary. C-sections have saved the lives of so many mums and babies that the prejudice stirred up against them is very unjust.

If resources are limited I'd rather they be spent on mums and babies than on the numerous drunks that seem to take over A&E (ER) every night - just my own sense of priorities!

here too, Jane

it's everywhere........... news is slow, so it gets picked up and then the media adds their own slant to things

if the media would remove their bias, things reported would be a LOT more reasonable

whatever, sigh

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kate