“...In 99% of births...”
Most places have C-section rates higher than twenty percent.
I saw five of my six children come into this world via rather uncomplicated deliveries and I wouldn’t have missed it. This writer must be on the wimpy side.
What gets me is that modern feminists can describe cold hospital delivery rooms as such a mean male conspiracy and give those MDs no credit for bringing death in childbirth for the mother to be extremely rare.
yeah, on the %, docs often opt for C-sections to prevent ANY liability issues, but a large portion of those are decided/scheduled beforehand. The big emergency is when you’re in the labor room and have a problem requiring instant medical attention. Those are probably higher than 1% but still only a fraction of C-sections.
I can’t think of any friends who had C-sections when they weren’t pre-scheduled or at least pre-determined that they’d be C-sections. And, generally, once a woman’s had a C-section, her subsequent deliveries are C-sections. After an emergency C-section with my first, my next was sure gonna be a C. Its being twins sorta sealed that deal.
I never will understand the militants who insist on home births being safer than in a hospital with an MD in the wings. I guess again 99% would work out with a healthy, young mother. I wouldn’t take the chance.