to be fuming at stupid woman on the radio! She reckons CS are the easy option!

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was listening to a woman on the radio who has had 7 kids. She thinks that women who opt for pain relief during labour are weak and should just 'get on with it'. She said epidurals and c sections are the easy option.

FWIW an emcs saved both mine and my baby's life. I went in with the attitude that I'd like to give birth naturally with maybe a bit of gas and air ... how wrong I was!

And recovering from an emcs is hell on earth!

AIBU to think that women like that do nothing for woman-kind whatsoever and shouldn't judge or make stupid comments on how women give birth.

Grrrrrrr!

It really is as pointless as arguing about whether 17th May is a better birthday than the 13th July.

Really, it is.

hazeyjane and mrsdevere my apologies, that comment of mine about whinging was meant in the general sense and not at all in relation to childbirth. There was a trail of thought in there somewhere but rereading it now I can see there's a bit missing and it doesn't make the same sense as it did to me at 6ish...no excuse, but it was the fifth time I'd been up last night

Ive had 5 kids 4 vaginal and 1 c section and i have to say i take my hat off to anyone who has more than 1.I was in more pain and discomfort than i ever was.
I couldnt lift and could barely stand.I dont know how i managed it.
but that women is talking through her arse unless shes been through it,she knows jackshit.

I was told to just get on with it but insisted on a C section (for spd). 14 months later I'm virtually unable to walk. What I'd be like after a vaginal birth I cannot imagine.

Neither is the easy option although, because of several tears, my VBAC took much longer to recover from than my EMCS. Everyone is different so you shouldn't let other people's opinions worry you so much.

YANBU.

My mum & I wouldn't be here today if my mum hadn't had a CS with me.

I do think that the term "elective CS" is misleading though - it implies that women have the option to go for a VB - when in reality, all CS's carried out before a women goes into labour are called an ELCS, even if the doctors believe that the woman and her baby would die without a CS.

To be fair, there is such a thing as an ElCS because the woman didn't want to go through a VB.

I have had two. I went private to get them, but I know of several women who've managed to obtain them on the NHS.

For DD, she was breach and I'd had a CS 13 months previously, so I would have probably blagged it, but for my DS, there was no medical indication why I should opt for a CS other than personal choice.

I stand by the fact that it was right for me and my family.

I am not pro-CS, nor am I anti-VB... SImply pro-choice.

omg she sounds like my mil. Last week my mil stated that women who have cs have an easy time (knowing that I had a cs with my dd).

No worries then about the massive pph I had following it.