What, no thread about Britney Spears wanting a c/birth?!

[gottaknit]

Just read in the paper today that Britney "is hoping for a cesarean section" because her mother told her "birth is excruciatingly painful". So much for that whole kabbalah waterbirth idea....?

And slightly O.T., she also said she thinks motherhood will make her "less introverted". : (I can't find the spitting-out-my-drink smiley... )

And there's your fluff for the day.

[Barcino]

She is a smart cookie... isnt she?

[shelbean91]

There was a huge thread about this a week or so ago. I'm not sure where it was.

[Czen:)]

I think there was a thread over in "I'm Pregnant".

Czen

[Belle]

http://www.nbc11.com/entertainment/4947672/detail.html

I think it's kind of sad that her mother was so unsupportive of her original choice to have a water birth. I kind of feel sorry for her.

[MamaTaraX]

Here you go!

Here's the big thread about it from a week or two ago.

Namaste, Tara
mama to Doodle (6), Butterfly (2), and Rythm (due at home 1/06)

[MamaTaraX]

Originally Posted by Belle

http://www.nbc11.com/entertainment/4947672/detail.html

I think it's kind of sad that her mother was so unsupportive of her original choice to have a water birth. I kind of feel sorry for her.

aww, I read that. This stuck out: "She said marriage and motherhood will help her "not be influenced so much" by what other people think." For someone not wanting to be influenced so much she sure was easily influenced out of a waterbirth. How sad

Namaste, Tara
mama to Doodle (6), Butterfly (2), and Rythm (due at home 1/06)

[Undercover Hippie]

Wow, just wow to this:

She told Elle magazine that she wants a cesarean section because she doesn't want to go through pain. She said her mother told her giving birth was "the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life."

First of all, it makes me so when a woman passes this kind of message on to her daughter.

And second, I can never understand how *weeks* of painful recovery from a c/s is supposed to better than a few hours or maybe a day of labor pain???

[gottaknit]

Originally Posted by adenlilysmama

And second, I can never understand how *weeks* of painful recovery from a c/s is supposed to better than a few hours or maybe a day of labor pain???

yeah, I took every pain med offered while recovering from the c/birth, and it still hurt like a for weeks. If it's pain she's trying to avoid, why not an epidural? So sad...

[Doodlebugsmom]

I just hope she has a labor and delivery like I had with my first. It was so fast that we almost didn't make it to the hospital, and it was relatively painless. I was ready to do it all over again immediately! That way, she wouldn't have to go through a C-section, and she could prove her mother totally wrong!

[Camellia]

I wish so bad that I could just have 2 minutes with her. My son was a traumatic vaginal delivery, and my dd was delivered by a "normal" c/s. I'm pregnant now and I am having a homebirth. A c/s is easily 10 times as painful to recover from Its one of the very few times in my life that I have cried tears from physical pain.

[Mrs Dimples]

This is just sad. I mean, not every woman experiences birth as a wonderful, blissful thing. That's fine. I'm sure it hurts like a b*&$h for most people. But THAT'S NOT ALL THERE IS TO IT. Lots of things hurt, but that doesn't mwan they're to be avoided at all costs. It is sad that our society has twisted this so much, so that a mother - who should be the very one to pass on this beautiful tradition to her daughter - has done the opposite and turned her away from her instincts.

[FitMama]

I agree that her mother is the problem. My mom always said that yes, childbirth hurts, but you forget all about the pain when you hold your baby. My mom had us *mostly* naturally (she caved in with me and had some demerol, and my sister was breech but somehow mom survived a vaginal birth anyway LOL!). To me, recovery is worse than labor pains, and I can only imagine how much it hurts to recover from a caesarean.

[Raynbow]

She's still a child... that is what is says to me.
It doesn't matter HOW old you are... if you are that easily convinced to drastically change something SOOO important to you, then you are still a child.

I wonder if she's read about the new study showing the c-sections may be one of the causes of ECC? (Early Childhood Cavities) (I had an emergency c and am now facing horrendous ECC and repair under GA for him next week... horrible). I actually recovered easier from the c then from the v, but I did face rehospitalization due to infection in the incision... I can't imagine choosing to have a c over a v...

[Storm Bride]

she wants a cesarean section because she doesn't want to go through pain

ARGH!
I have to admit that I've never pushed a baby out - but I have laboured into transition, and I'd take that much of it a dozen times over a c-section. The only thing in my life that's been worse than my c-section pain is when I tore a ligament in my knee while cross-country skiing...and it was only when I actually tore it that it hurt as badly as being post-op does.

Where do people get the idea that a scalpel through your abdomen is a pain-free procedure?

[USAmma]

I guess she'd rather have a major abdominal surgery and stiches than a straightforward vag. birth.

She's chosen a very posh hospital about 30 miles away from us. It has lovely birthing rooms and hot tubs, everything you could ever want. Why bother? The OR probably looks like every other OR in the country.

[LoveChild421]

so is she planning a C-section or does she just "hope" the "need" will arise for one?

that truly hurts my heart that all her mother can pass to her about birth is that it is "excruciatingly painful"- well yeah, it can be, but also so empowering and beautiful and amazing...sigh...I bet her mom had a "standard" 1980's ultra-medicalized birth...

[MrsMoe]

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman..._2726363.shtml

This news article says something totally different and mentions she wants a kabbalah water birth.

[Undercover Hippie]

Originally Posted by MrsMoe

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman..._2726363.shtml

This news article says something totally different and mentions she wants a kabbalah water birth.

There's no way of knowing if either article is completely accurate, but the c-section article was written about 2 weeks after the Kabballah water birth article so it looks like her plans may have changed. Who knows, could be that neither of them are right! :LOL

[TwinMom]

I read, I think in Us magazine--don't laugh, dh got me a subscription for Christmas because in late pregnancy and pp that's all the attention span I have--that she already had a c-section scheduled. Maybe that was wrong, though.