And no wonder. The C-Section rate in the U.S. is over 30% when research consistently shows that if C-sections are done only when medically necessary, the rate is no more than 10%. C-sections are major, serious surgery that carry significant risks to both mothers and babies. They are killing U.S. women.
This is why people should go to nurse-midwives instead of obstetricians for normal pregnancies, or direct-entry midwives, even. Midwives do not tell you that you need a c-section because the baby is "too big", something which is really never a valid reason. Midwives do not encourage you to get epidurals and other interventions which stall labor and lead to increased incidence of fetal distress leading to more c-sections. Midwives do not decide that they are busy and it is time for your labor to be over, so how about some major abdominal surgery because this labor has just dragged on "too long".
Ironically, it is often the fear of malpractice suits that cause OBs to engage in this very gross malpractice...a vicious cycle. They feel that if something goes wrong, they must look as if they tried to "do something" so they do the things that actually cause things to go wrong. Midwives, however, are rarely sued by their actual clients. It would serve doctors well to learn from their example and treat women with the sort of respect and care that makes them not want to sue you. It would serve women well if doctors would stop killing them to cover their own asses.
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I was wondering the statics on this. I rarely hear of people having a natural child birth these days. Everyone has "scheduled" their time and usually starts off induced then ends up in a c-section. When did major surgery become the norm? I thought we were suppose to avoid invasive procedures as much as we could, not schedule them into our lives.
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