Cesareans and Choice
When I came home after having M — born via unplanned cesarean after 60 hours of labour, face up with a head that wouldn’t turn or tuck — many women sent me messages telling me about their own unplanned Cesarean births. People I hadn’t talked to since high school, loose acquaintances on my Facebook list, all came out of the woodwork to say: I’ve been there, it’s hard, isn’t it, but you’ll eventually heal physically and then, even if it takes much longer, emotionally.
Key Takeaways:
- Following the author’s traumatic birth that ended in a c-section, many women spoke out to support her
- There were many more women supporting her after he repeat c-section as well, and she better about the surgery given her knowledge of needing it beforehand
- The author is trying to create a dialogue on choice factored into othe’s birthing experiences.
“I wracked my brain after, trying to figure out where I could have turned left instead of right and changed what happened.”