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Yes I have two kids one of which was delivered by c-section.
by shiftpgdn 4y ago
Yes I have two kids one of which was delivered by c-section.
- Der_Einzige 4y agoThe fact that epiderals aren't literally always done for women still shocks me.
- one_more_q 4y agoWhy would that shock you? An epidural has side effects that should be taken into considerations. Plenty of women have kids without any medication…
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThey increase the risk of c-sections.
- 1123581321 4y agoLots of women don’t want them.
- jbn 4y agoIs there data on this? Specifically I wonder if women who refused it for a first birth still refuse them for subsequent births (or maybe they change their mind?).
- 1123581321 4y agoI don't have any good data and would also be interested. Anecdotally, I do know women who didn't use them at first and started using them later for multiple reasons: aging, advice of medical team changing, unexpectedly low pain tolerance, and in a couple of cases, just wanting to experience an epidural with the last kid. :) I also know some who stopped using epidurals, but fewer and most of them simply had become interested in more natural births between children.
- googlryas 4y agoAnd it looked like a butcher shop to you? I honestly have no idea what you're getting this from. Do you remember you/your wife giving vaginal birth to her placenta? Didn't that look like a butcher shop?
- 1123581321 4y agoHe might mean butcher shop as in being treated like a piece of meat to be handled as conveniently as possible, rather than consulted or even allowed to guide her own birthing experience. My wife had made similar remarks.
- googlryas 4y agoWell, I guess sorry your doctors sucked, but that isn't reason to malign the whole concept.
- 1123581321 4y agoWhat are you talking about? This doesn’t have anything to do with the quality of individual doctors, or whether any particular procedure has value. (At least, as I understand the point of the descriptions of systems in action in the article.)
- googlryas 4y agoI'm responding to the butcher shop comment, not the article. The article has no reference to c sections or labor and delivery in general being butcher shoppy, unless you think scheduling a time for a c section or inductions makes it a butcher shop. I assumed OP was talking about c sections specifically, since it was in response to a comment about c sections, and c sections might use similar tools to a butcher shop(a knife). The comment makes even less sense if they're talking about labor and delivery generally, which maybe they are. Maybe hospitals are a little too clinical for some, but that doesn't make them a butcher shop, and that's why you can bring your own doula. And maybe the clinicalness is part of the reason hospital births are far safer than home births.