Yep, if you think about it, the above advice is nothing but "common sense" and good medicine practice. The point is that the decision between a normal birth an

Yep, if you think about it, the above advice is nothing but "common sense" and good medicine practice. The point is that the decision between a normal birth and a C-section is to be taken on a case by case basis by a (hopefully) competent doctor and not "planned" (one way or the other) in advance or decided because of other reasons. Anecdata, my uncle was a surgeon and he always repeated us that "if it is really-really, and I mean really needed, than go for it, but otherwise never let anyone cut through your body".