Doing caesarean due to comodity, fear or cause you had no choice

Romania
August 30, 2009 3:56am CST
This is a subject which still is regarded with dissaproval, it raises many questions, arouses controversy. It continues to be discussed even by doctors, while some of them talk about the positive aspects (there's no pain during the act of birth), others consider it to be a major risk not only for the mother, but especially for the new baby. In my case I hadn't had the chance to choose, I was being told that I had to do caesarean.Of course I knew about the problems that could appear during the operation or after, and I must admit I was scared for my son.In Romania, you are scared in general, when it comes to talk about doctors. Why? Well, the basic motif is the money (as always).If you don't have any money than you are seen, most of the time, as a nobody. I've heard about many horrible cases in which mothers or their unborn child didn't survived because of the doctors who didn't wanted to take care of them, didn't paid attention to them because they were too poor and hadn't any money to offer.This is one of the saddest parts of reality from here. On the other hand, for me money wasn't a critical issue cause I had it. But, guess what? Even so, sometimes you can have surprises here. And I'm not talking about those that are nice. However, I was very lucky. The operation was fine, the recovery was very quickly because I tried to move as much as I could the next day, and, as the doctors said, another factor who contributed at this was my age. Young women tend to recover sooner than the ones who, let's say are beyond 30 years old. Looking back at those days I often think that it had to be this way, I don't regret doing it, I have a healthy and playful son. It it much harder, I must say, with an operation like this one you will never be the same, you need to be more careful but yet...the bad thing is that you can't have more than 2 children (3 caesareans is at your risk...) Some women although they have no problems choose to do caesarean.Is it for fear? For not suffering? For comodity?
1 response
• United States
31 Aug 09
we choose to do caesarean over natural child birth. I have bad anxiety and I don't think I would have been able to handle it. It ended up that during monitoring one day I was having light contractions and they lost his heartbeat so I ended up with an emergency c-section prior to the planned c-section date. I was up walking that afternoon. I went home on the 3rd day. I only had problems with stairs. But after a day or so I was fine.