tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4181472671648618071.post5218988506572967120..comments2023-10-18T15:20:33.029+01:00Comments on cesarean debate (now caesareanbirth.org): Mother Nature's Way versus The Easy Waycesarean debatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01711913972260724246noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4181472671648618071.post-23004240075440493432010-06-10T05:18:47.479+01:002010-06-10T05:18:47.479+01:00In my opinion anything that can be done is natural...In my opinion anything that can be done is natural. If it wasn't we wouldn't be able to do it.<br /><br />It's natural that we are smart enough to make advances in science and technology.<br /><br />It's natural that we discovered surgery somewhere along the lines and are able to use it to make our lives better.<br /><br />It's "natural" to let your cavity infested tooth rot out of your head, so then why do people opt to have it surgically removed? ..that's the way I feel about child birth. Sort of.. to a degree.<br />I feel that if it will cause me less trauma and suffering then why not have my child surgically removed as opposed to him ripping me in half with all the unknown outcomes that occur during childbirth?<br /><br />I had an elective cesarean and I wouldn't change it for the world.<br /><br />Also.. I actually do feel like I took the easy way out--and I could care less what anyone else has to say about it. Because I didn't suffer hours and hours of pain and get ripped to my sphincter I'm not a good mother? Okay..right. <br /><br />I love what you do. I constantly refer your site and your blog to all my friends and acquaintances who are trying to decide which option is best for them.<br /><br />Hopefully one day it will be accepted for women to do what they feel is right for them, their body, and their baby.Robynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4181472671648618071.post-84149931705126801142010-05-03T22:04:22.745+01:002010-05-03T22:04:22.745+01:00Dear Pauline,
I am Ksenia and I live in Moscow, R...Dear Pauline,<br /><br />I am Ksenia and I live in Moscow, Russia. It is usual practice here to say (by journalists and politicians) that our and Chinese mentality have many common features. But! It was also strange for me to know that in China elective caesareans are usual practice, while here in Russia doctors will do everything to persuade every woman, despite her actual health and reasons for her choice, to give birth “naturally” (e.g. special magasines for pregnant women are full of phrases that EVERY woman wants to come through natural labour, and so on, and it was many times I tried to say that it's not true – and received answers that it should be legally prohibited for me to have chlidren at all if I WANT the c-section, one prenatal psychologist even said directly to me - “what a pity I did not know you earlier, if I did – I could persuade you to make an abortion, your baby will never be happy with such mother”).<br />So! I wonder if it's the real “western” mentality – to perform propaganda of privilege position for those whose biological conditions are “better”? I suppose no. It looks more like the fascist one, not western. <br />But – it's a fact that such propaganda exists not in my post-communist country, but in western countries as well. So – qui prodest? To whom it is really necessary and what are the real reasons for it? Is that WHO that agitates to give birth naturally? Or someone else – e.g. doctors and health ministers of each concrete country for their personal reasons in every concrete case?<br />I would like to know your opinion – or to read it if it was early published by you.<br />Sorry for my poor English :)<br /><br />Regards,<br />KseniaYshkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11129167564868819169noreply@blogger.com