Lol Smurfs and Highlander . I've got reasonably flat nipples too so could never bf effectively - I'm sure I'd have been doubly unwelcome at a NCT coffee morning - I've no doubt nipple shields are for wimps too!!
Hercules, you should not worry about making comments which are openly critical of women who are quite willing to admit that cs would be their birthing method of choice, or opt for delivery by elective cs - others have been doing this in a highly offensive, scathing and judgemental way for years.
In my opinion it's precisely because those of us who do not consider there is any shame in admitting that, given the choice, we'd opt for an elective cs, have been slated for so long for being selfish, vain scaredycats who do not possess the moral fibre to "do what women are made to do" that we have had to let our voices be heard and defend our right to hold the views we do.
The same people who have slated us for so long are the same people who peddle the sort of nonsense that makes women who have emergency css feel like they've "failed" in some way. In my view it is highly likely that this is the sort of rubbish which gives rise to the link between cs and PND rather than factors arising from the cs experience itself.
Delivering a baby by elective cs does not make a woman any less of a woman or less of a mother.
As mothers let us be judged on how we nuture, care for and teach our children as they mature to adulthood. The day he/she is born is just one day out of your child's life - does it really matter how they come into the world as long as the outcome is a healthy child and a happy, healthy mother.