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I think the whole rhetoric about C-sections needs to be adjusted for a time where many older women are having babies. There's a kind of narrative about optimal
by prionassembly 5y ago
I think the whole rhetoric about C-sections needs to be adjusted for a time where many older women are having babies. There's a kind of narrative about optimal pregnancy/childbirth/early care that seems to make sense for 27-year-olds who will sneeze and squeeze out their baby and shoot milk at the thought of their baby. But that's increasingly not the norm.
More generally: declining birth rates are one of our top-ten societal problems if we think 50-100 years ahead; part of addressing it is changing the conversation around pregnancy in one's late 30s and even early 40s. From watching TV shows it would seem by age 35 your shot is shot.