C-section not real birth

[Washingforweeks]

I was just scrollling through Facebook and saw a post about women getting shamed for c-sections. I’ve had 3 vaginal births never a c section so I have never personally experienced this kind of…. Well wtf is it…. Ridiculousness. Is this genuinely a real thing?? Are there women out there being shamed for having c-sections? If so Jesus Christ. Seriously?!

Apparently it's a generic term for the woman being exhausted.
Health visitor was supposed to put me through for a "talk through" with someone of how the birth went. There's a term for it but I forget what it is.
This was in August, I'm still waiting, I shan't bother, I know how things went and that's all that matters.
I'm guessing "poor maternal effort" is a term invented by a bloke!

Thank you - and I'm really pleased to hear that you were able to choose a birth that was best for you, and that that was an excellent experience. I would want every woman to have that option. I didn't get have all the options I wanted available to me due to circumstances - I would have chosen a homebirth for my second if it weren't for COVID - but I think the way some women are forced to fight for their own choices, particularly for an elective caesarean, is disgraceful and unjustifiable.

Just to note that I'd always refer to my births as vaginal not natural - both because of the potentially offensive implications of 'natural' and also because it's just untrue! I had gas and air both times and used a birthing pool for the second (which was a much better experience overall for no physiological reason but purely because my care was better, which is pretty sad and also doesn't support maternal choice). I know there's a big idea that birthing pools are 'peak natural' but it's basically a jacuzzi!

I have two children. One natural and one was emergency c section.

I’ve had to deal with some idiots saying c sections aren’t real births.
what are they then? The mother is opened up and has her organs taken out to birth a baby. And it takes MONTHS not weeks for her body to return to ‘normal’.

I’ve also found myself defending natural births as apparently c sections were easier and the person ‘arguing’ had a whole list of crude defences. It was ridiculous.

Unfortunately, you cant argue with stupid OP