Amazing Kegelmaster

10 Responses

1. Ana

   2010 Mar 10 1

   NEVER! I had no problems. I wouldn’t let the books you are reading to scare you away from having a natural birth.
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2. yellow fuzzy

   2010 Mar 10 2

   My aunt had a natural birth for her first, and a C section for her second.

   With the C section, her recovery time was actually much longer. She was in much more pain, and the incision hurt and itched for quite a while. She even had to have help taking care of her children, because she couldn’t lift the baby for a while.

   Of course, every woman is different. Like you said, a perfect vaginal birth is the best option, but I’m not strictly opposed to either one. I asked my doctor about elective C sections, and she said that, in her experience, a vaginal birth was preferable, unless there were complications that warranted a C section.
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3. Concise

   2010 Mar 10 3

   A natural, vaginal birth is the best thing for the baby.
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4. Pregnant with baby # 2

   2010 Mar 10 4

   I had an emergency C-section with my daughter and im now pregnant again with baby number 2. My Dr has already told me that i could pick between having a natural or another c-section (not emergency) and ive decided i will go with the c-section. My Dr told me if i were to pick going natural that there is a big chance id have another emergency c-section due to the complications with trying to deliver my first child. It took me about 4 weeks to recover completely from the c-section. I couldn’t change my daughters nappy in the hospital or reach over to pick her up when she was crying (due to the operation). They were the only negatives i experienced. I got to kiss my daughter and say a quick hello immediately after she was born and the scar is very tiny and sits just under my bikini line, barely noticeable. Im 100% happy to have another c-section and i do agree with you that c-sections are a safe procedure now.
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5. celestial

   2010 Mar 10 5

   I think that women have been delivering babies vaginally since the dawn of time and the body is designed to give birth this way. If a woman doesn’t want an overweight infant, she should eat healthier during pregnancy.
   Most doctors will not do elective c-sections. They will only do them if it is medically necessary. To each their own – it’s your body, not mine. But it seems that you should educate yourself more on the benefits of vaginal vs cesarean rather than the drawbacks of the former and benefits of the latter. Here are a few drawbacks to cesarean sections -

   - shorter-term harms of cesarean in mothers, such as infection, surgical injury, and more severe and longer-lasting pain)
   - social and emotional harms of cesarean on mothers, such as less early contact with babies and poorer overall functioning
   - ongoing physical harms of cesarean to mothers, chronic pelvic pain and bowel obstruction
   - harms of cesarean to babies, including accidental surgical cuts, respiratory problems, failure to establish breastfeeding, and asthma in childhood and adulthood
   - harms of cesarean for women’s future reproductive capacity, including infertility, ectopic pregnancy, placenta accreta and placental abruption and many serious consequences of this class of effects
   - harms of cesarean to babies in future pregnancies, including stillbirth and malformation.

   Anywhere you look it up, sources are going to tell you that vaginal births are generally safer than c-section births.
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   http://www.childbirthconnection.org/article.asp?ck=10271

6. Leigh

   2010 Mar 10 6

   i think you should do some more research, we just studied childbirth in my human anatomy and physiology class and there has been a major increase deaths caused by childbirth, so its actually now safer to have a baby at home then in a hospital in the US, and the majority of these deaths are caused by complications during cesarean sections. it takes a much longer recovery time because of the surgery, and this causes a lot of bed rest, sometimes weeks at a time, and this lack of movement causes blood clots, which can lead to heart attack and stroke. there can be severe complications with the surgery, such as to much blood loss and complications with the anesthesia, and the scarring on the uterus causes it to be more tearable in future pregnancies, that is why most hospitals dont offer elective c sections especially not in first time pregnancies with no complications. id rather have some bowel problems then all these things. just do it the old fashion way. my mother had a c section with my older brother and said she was sick and in pain for weeks after, she had me and my older sister through vaginal birth and she said it was much better, less recovery time, and no surgery, and less dangers.
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7. Karma

   2010 Mar 10 7

   I respect your point, but a C-section has it’s risks, too.

   Two friends of mine are now traumatized to the point of never having any more children after their c-sections. In the first case, she was only numb on one side. Despite her pleading with the doctors they cut her anyway. She felt everything.

   In the second case, the doctor slipped and cut deeply into her bowel and the baby’s arm. She had to have two more consecutive surgeries to repair the bowel, which by the way, they didn’t know had happened until she became very, very ill from infection and she nearly died. Her baby ended up with stitches and will have a scar for life.

   You may think "oh that’s rare, it won’t happen to me." These women didn’t think so, either. It’s major surgery, and major surgery has a much longer recovery time, which also may include years. It can be common that the scar tissue from the uterus healing from the internal incision can adhere to other organs, and be painful for a very long time. C-sections also pose a risk to future pregnancies, vaginal births do not.

   I think more research is needed before you consider this as an option. The grass is not greener on that side, it’s just different.
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8. naenae0011

   2010 Mar 10 8

   I can see that you have done a ton of research, but it looks like you haven’t yet researched the risks associated with c-sections. There is no argument that vaginal childbirth is the safest way of giving birth. Not to mention the quickest recovery. Prolapsed uterus or bladder are common for any woman who has been pregnant, not necessarily because of the way they delivered.

   I laboured for 18 hours, and ended up having a c-section because I was one of those women with a 10 pound baby that wouldn’t fit into my pelvis (I was at 9cm for 9 HOURS and she didn’t engage any further). At that point, I just wanted the baby out. My sister had 2 previous c-sections, so I knew what to expect and that I had someone who understood my post-op challenges.

   For the first week, I was unable to sit up, lay down, stand up, or open a door on my own. Coughing, sneezing and laughing are the worst sensation. It felt like your guts would spill out the 5" insicion.

   9 days after my surgery I was re-admitted with a Strep A infection in my insicion. I had to stay in the hospital for 1 week on IV antibiotics, and I COULD NOT have my baby with me because my infection was too contagious ( I was quarantined). After my 7 days in hospital, I get a phone call from my baby’s father (who is taking care of my 3 week old daughter). He says she has a fever and is moaning and lethargic. I complete my last dose of IV antibiotics and run down to the ER, to see my baby lying half-conscious on the table.

   That night she had her first spinal tap, and was admitted to the pediatric ICU. She caught the StrepA infection from me, and was on IV antibiotics for 1 week. We are both fine now.

   None of this would have happened if I didn’t have a c-section. You also have to consider the scar tissue that forms after this surgery, and the incision is crazy itchy for a year or two after.

   If I get pregnant again, I will be attempting a VBAC.
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9. Mommy to 1+triplets

   2010 Mar 10 9

   I have had both. My first was natural, she was over 9lbs, had a 14 inch head, very large baby. My 2nd was with triplets and I GUESS you could call it an "elective" c-section, but having higher order mulitples vaginally is extremely dangerous so with that being said, that is why I chose to have a c-section.

   If I was having a singleton and uncomplicated low risk pregnancy, there is no way that I would choose to have a c-section. The recovery from a c-section is 10 times harder, but beyond that I have more trouble from the c-section than I ever did from my vaginal delivery. They cut through the muscles when you have a c-section, which makes them extremely weak, which in turn causes all kinds of problems as far as urinary tract problems, bowel problems, etc. but in a complete different area from your pelvic floor (i.e. you can not bare down to have a bowel movement as effectively which leads to constipation.) When they do any surgery they also cut through the nerves which makes the skin numb. I still have no feeling for about a 2 to 3 inches all the way around my incision. You have a greater risk of infection when you have a c-section. I have heard of some women having extreme tenderness around the incision sight for YEARS after. My husband is almost 30 and my mother in law’s c-section scar is still very tender she says.

   I had a complicated vaginal delivery, my daughter had shoulder dystocia (her shoulders got stuck behind my pelvic bone), I had to have an episiotomy and literally almost got ripped "a new one", I had pre-eclampsia, and then after she was born I hemorrhaged and was about 5 minutes away from getting an emergency hysterectomy because they could not get the bleeding to stop. Then I had a smooth c-section… and out of the 2, I would rather have the vaginal delivery any day of the week.

   I do not really think that whatever your source of information is, is a reputable accurate source. Women have given birth to bigger babies than what they do now. Actually studies have shown that in the last 15 years the "average" weight of birth weight has actually decreased instead of increased. A lot of people believe that a woman’s body can not fit a 9 or 10lb baby through the pelvic bones, but it can if given the chance. The reason that more and more women are having c-sections is not because they are 100% necessary, but its more for liability reasons as far as the doctor is concerned. A large baby is not always a reason to have a c-section but because things CAN go wrong women and the doctor can be held liable if something were to go wrong and he did not recommend a c-section in the first place, its his butt on the chopping block.

   I recommend speaking to your doctor about the pros and the cons about both and asking his professional opinion about it. Me personally, I wouldn’t opt for a c-section unless needed.
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10. Sunn

    2010 Mar 10 10

    There are risks and benefits with both, so you just have to weigh those risks and choose which ones you can best handle.
    It’s very rare but incontinence can happen through cesarean too, if the doctor accidentally cuts the bladder or bowels. Either way giving birth is risky.

    That being said, I had a wonderful c-section experience. I had little to no pain and could move just fine and take care of my baby perfectly as soon as the catheter was removed. I prefer the c-section over vaginal any day!
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    Experience and tons of research