britjojo - i guess you meant "increase in medically UNnecessary c-sections"? wow - i never knew about this "too posh to push" trend! but i guess it's their choice - as long as the doctor can write it up so it's justified and paid for by medical insurance.
my two were big babies: first was 9 lbs 11 oz (ironically born a couple of months before the attack!) second was 9 lbs 2 oz. and altho i had about 26 hrs. of labor for both, i managed with my wonderful dh by my side and thru the use of lamaze breathing, to push each one out in 40 mins. and 25 mins. respectively! altho i gained about 45 lbs. my first pregnancy, about 2 months before giving birth we moved to a new home and i lifted heavy boxes and pushed around furniture--by myself when dh wasn't home-- to get the house in order, as much as ob/gyn advise against such activity. well, i think that it somehow put me in shape and when it came time to push, i was pretty strong.
i also have to add that i had a problem with my epidural in both deliveries because it completely wore off on about half of my body...so i really felt a LOT of pain and that was incentive for me to push with everthing i had to get the baby out. in lamaze, i learned that if the epidural works too well, then you're numb and can't feel the pain as much, so it's good to consider getting the type that gradually wears off. i wanted the gradual kind, not the one that wore off suddenly and soo completely!
lamaze breathing helped a LOT, as much as others poo-poo it, like my friend and her hubby. they said they sat in back and laughed the entire class. not to be malicious, but when they delivered their first child, my friend pushed for about 2 hours with no progress so she was forced to have a c-section. well, at least she tried.
i do suspect that another gal i know opted for a c-section for vanity reasons. which brings me to the topic of breast feeding - i nursed my first for 5 mts. and my second for a whole year - but this gal i know refused only because she didn't want droopy boobs! oh well.
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Originally Posted by britjojo
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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