Posted on 04/29/2009 5:15:06 AM PDT by Jenny Hatch
kind of focuses the mind on the pros-cons there, doesn’t it? : )
i have a problem with it, also. like i said, i had a Csection, followed by two vaginal births. the c-section was my first child. Same set of docs, same practice for all three kids, clearly they weren’t predisposed to do C-sections only as a means of escaping potential liability [my husband and i are both lawyers, so they’d have even MORE reason to say Csection only!] you have to TRUST your doctors. if you don’t, look to another practice or go find a birthing center, midwife etc. Until they inflict national healthcare on us, we do still have choices.
I had a c-section with my second child. I completely disagree that nationalized health care will stop surgical births.
It will be just the opposite. The mothers who want to labor naturally will be given just a short time to produce a baby and if she does not conform to the rules and regs around vaginal birth, they will cut and pull to free up her labor bed for another patient.
C-section is completely hospital friendly, doctor friendly, nurse friendly, and BAD for the mother and child. Especially the ones that are done for convenience. A 31.8% rate means that tens of thousands of babies are being delivered surgically who would have done just fine naturally.
Nationalized health care will mean open season on woman’s bodies and minds, and what will be lost in the exchange is natural birth.
Jenny
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