Maybe for her the potential risks of c section are worth taking so she doesn't have to experience labour pains.
Do you understand how utterly misogynistic that comment is?!
When reasons for requesting a Cs have been looked at, pain tends not to be a dominant factor.
The suggestion that it is, is one that is peddled by the popular press who also spout the trope about 'being too posh to push'.
Thankyou RedToothBrush - I always worry when posting about electives, because I know that for some women they are very healing, and my experience was the very opposite!
No not at all. My worry has been that support for ELCS for mental health reasons has been pushed without thought in some cases. It's viewed as something of a magic bullet for birth fear. When you start to talk to women about birth fear you get a huge range of responses, concerns and priorities and it's important to unpick those and think about a range of alternatives and their positives / negatives and give thought to the underlying causes of the fear as often those causes are long standing and aren't just about birth.
To here a negative experience is healthy because it makes people think about how it might not go to plan or meet their expectations. Considering it helps to cope with it or make people think that actually they might prefer another approach.
More often then not, support and being listened to and respected is as important as the method of birth anyway.
It was decided that the point of this thread was birth trauma from hospitals and male interference when I started the thread
Thats not how debate on MN works. You don't 'own' a thread.
And just HOW sexist is it to say that women must stick to their own and gynecology must be promoted as a female only career? The female doctors I know already felt pressured to go into certain areas of medicine based on gendered stereotyping and attitudes. Medicine still has a major problem with misogyny as a career despite the number of women who qualify as doctors. Many professional women are keen to break out of that, and for that reason pressure to work in gynaecology is unwanted and counterproductive.
On the flip to that there are more midwives leaving the profession than joining it, despite government promises to recruit thousands more.
A good friend currently works as a health care assistant in a maternity ward, and would like to train but she simply can not get the finances to add up despite looking into it and effectively having some experience.
I have to say that for all the bleating on about feminism, childbirth and it being the subject of the thread which we must all cowtow to, there are some really ignorant views that are totally counter to centring women, understanding problems in maternity and knowing anything very much at all about birth fear.
Not to mention how trying to restrict the topic of conversation (whilst simultaneously going on about how taboo it was to talk about women centred care) is quite gobsmackingly arrogant and ironic. How can you stop something being taboo whilst also telling people they aren't allowed to talk about things that don't fit in with your narrative?
It's appalling.