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>now were at a point where every pregnant woman wants an epidural, a scheduled C-section (!!), inducing labor via medicine. This is so blatantly factually inco
by nommm-nommm 11y ago
>now were at a point where every pregnant woman wants an epidural, a scheduled C-section (!!), inducing labor via medicine.
This is so blatantly factually incorrect that it actually makes me sick to read.
>I simply wanted to correlate that more interventions = more risk.
This is not always true and the maternal death rate shows that. I'll give you an example - I have a friend who had a scheduled C-section recently. She had a medical condition that made giving birth vaginally very risky from a health perspective. She could have been fine but there was a very large chance childbirth also could have triggered disability or death. She had a whole team of doctors coordinate with each other to choose the least risky option and they agreed that a scheduled C-section was best option for both maternal and fetal health. More intervention = much less risk in this case.
- theli0nheart 11y ago>> now were at a point where every pregnant woman wants an epidural, a scheduled C-section (!!), inducing labor via medicine. > This is so blatantly factually incorrect that it actually makes me sick to read. Many of our friends are pregnant or have just had kids, and my wife is 9 months pregnant. We've had a lot of talk about this with them. I wouldn't by any means say that scheduling a C-section is something everyone does, but it's incredibly common. I know of two pregnant women in our peer group that already have a date on the calendar.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoThere is not very many obgyns you can convince to do that.
- theli0nheart 11y agoThat's good to hear. There's no way our OB would do it either, but I suppose if you're the sort of person who wants one, you keep asking until you get it.