“Too Posh To Push” in UK
Currently, British women who can’t afford to pay private doctors for their baby’s delivery have been allowed to have planned C-sections only if there are health concerns for mother or baby. Emergency C-sections are done when the situation demands it.
But new guidelines set to take effect later this month say pregnant women “with no identifiable reason” should be allowed a cesarean if they still want it following a discussion with mental health experts.
“It’s about time women who have no desire to view labor as a rite of passage into motherhood be able to choose how they want to have their baby,” said Pauline Hull, who has had two children by cesarean because of medical reasons. “The important thing to me was meeting my baby, not the experience of labor.”
Hull runs the website, Elective Cesarean, from her home in Surrey, south of London. She said midwives tend to over-exaggerate the risks of C-sections and underestimate those of vaginal births.
Is labor so strenuous that a C-section is preferable to natural childbirth? The idea C-sections should be an option for mere convenience does not make sense. The difference in cost between natural childbirth and C-sections runs into the thousands of dollars. The recovery time for C-sections is also longer. If someone prefers a C-section to natural childbirth, let them pay the difference. I cannot believe it’s a better option that what has occurred naturally for millions of years. It’s a wonder human kind survived!
Why pay if it’s not necessary? If it’s necessary for health reasons, fine; that’s the legitimate purpose of insuring against the risk. But if it’s elective, why should the public pay for it?
I have to wonder how people in the distant future will view the whole C-section vs natural birth debate. I’m guessing that technology will have advanced to the point where babies can be created and then grow and develop in artificial incubator-like apparatuses.
Why opt for a procedure that comes with prolonged bed rest and limited exercise for several weeks after giving birth? Can someone out there quantify the costs associated these preference?I’ve always viewed a C-section as a procedure that women should have only when they have to.
The C-section trend, like contraception, liposuction, bail-outs, abortion, and that awesome weight loss drug those pesky FDA people banned, are attempts to avoid the natural consequences of our actions.
Whenever we find a new way “easy way out” we continue on the road to decadence and self-destruction.
I’ve heard it’s a trend with celebrities to elect for a C-Section so they can get a tummy tuck at the same time.