Please, I don't want anyone to feel the need to defend themselves for a medically necessary c section. Rather, I would like to discuss the increase in medically necessary c-sections, and why it is that the definition of necessary has changed so much to cause such an increase.
I think that designer c-sections, for the avoidance of pushing, of pain, of vaginal stretching or whatever reasons are given, are in the minority. I don't think that they, for normal people, account for the increase.
Rhoshoun is right, weight gain is not the cause of most of them. Yes, more pregnant women are obese now, but if anything that is more reason for a doc to AVOID a c-section, because the surgery is so much more complicated by the extra weight.
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