I cant beleive this!!! - Page 3

[Greaseball]

Well I went back and read that elective c/s article. Disgusting! I get very uncomfortable when I realize I am smarter than the doctor, and that was the situation here. Having a c/s to avoid an episiotomy doesn't make any sense! I made sure to vote on the poll, and 37% say they would choose elective c/s too. And this woman probably tells that to all her patients.

And she lists PAIN as a reason not to deliver vaginally?! Do most people after being cut open just go right back to their lives as if nothing happened? And she thinks her 18-hour labor was too long?

Actually, I hear the two groups most likely to be sectioned are doctors' wives and nurses. (Open Season)

Edited to add: There should be a law that says planned c/s must take place from midnight to 5 am. I bet there would be a lot less of them then! Also, I hear that even most "emergency" cesareans take place during business hours.

[dancinggirl]

OMG!!! I can not believe that a Dr. would do such a wicked thing.

It just does not sound right to me. Does this stuff really happen??. I am shock

I never once thought about my vagina being much losser after giving birth. I am going to have a disccusion with dh about tonight.

It makes me a little more uncomfortable having another hospital birth after getting to know my options and realizing the Drs. do not have my best intersest in heart.

[DaryLLL]

I had pain after my c-sec so bad I welcomed the Dilaudid, a heroin like substance, for 3 days. When I went home I needed Tylenol 3 (w/codeine) for 4 weeks. It killed to get up out of bed or chair, it killed to reach into the bassinet and get my baby. Then I took reg Tylenol for weeks afterwards. I had pain for 6 mos. I had tenderness for a year, and numbness at the scar site for years after that.

After my 2 home VBACs, I was read to do a jig within minutes. It hurt to pee for a couple days with one of them, b/c I had a tiny labial scar that did not need a stitch.

No, none of my births loosened my vagina. It popped right back into shape, just like my uterus, of course.

[Greaseball]

Quotes about episiotomy

From Open Season, by Nancy Wainer Cohen, 1991, Bergin & Garvey, NYC. Pp 105-6

"Women do not 'choose' to have their vaginas cut."

"Doctors who do episiotomies have no regard for the female body and no understanding of how to assist at a birth without mutilating the mother...Providing care does not include cutting our genitals."

"He said, 'Well, there's nothing for me to do around here then'....and he walked out!...if he couldn't cut me, he wanted nothing to do with me!"

"I could only beign to imagine what men would say if we constantly told them that their penises weren't big enough to get out the sperm..."

"If we call routine episiotomy 'crotch slicing' perhaps it will stop sooner."