Thoughts on Elective C-section?

[mamadiva]

Was'nt sure where to put this so decided as it was news related it should go here.

After reading that Colleen Rooney has decided to have an elective C-section as she does'nt want the birth to conflict with Wayne's footie I just started to think more about whether it's really right or not.

I am all for women having choice and all but surely it should be down to her not wanting to go through natural labour than worrying about it clashing with work, is it really right that people can make these kinds of decisions without medcal guidance?

I do think that sections should only be used in emergencies or cases where people are genuinely terrified of child birth etc, but for convenience I think it's wrong.

I had an Emergency CS with my son and whilst it was'nt an horrible experience I would have rather done it naturally I know not everyone has had the same experience.

I just fail to see how people can choose surgery which has quite a slow recovery process for mother and baby (as far as I know) just for the sake of convenience.

So much for Colleen being a 'real woman', a real woman would choose what's right for herself and her abby whether it be natural or CS she has chosen for the sake of a football match.

So do you think it's right that this should be allowed?

If someone wants an elective c-section it's completely her own business. Even more so, if she's willing to pay for it, but even on the NHS it's not an expensive procedure and people who get morbidly obese or smoke cost the taxpayer a lot more. It's not for anyone else to judge the rights or wrong of it. Just because it's not right for you doesn't mean it's not right for someone else. I had a VB but only just - I was being prepared for a non-elective c-section when they said rather surprised that I was 10cm dilated and I could push. Ended up with a forceps delivery. Was it better? Probably. But someone who went through what I went through might well want a planned c-section next time. And given so many women seem to love scaring new mothers about childbirth and everything else it's not that surprising that many women just decide not to do it.