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The National Childbirth Trust has shaped childbirth in the UK
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThis feels like it could be doing the opposite of what they are complaining about and scaring mothers away from one option towards another with anecdotes and woo: > the organisation advised women that a vaginal birth after four previous C-sections was as safe as a planned C-section. In reality, says Kenga Sivarajah, a senior obstetrician at King’s College hospital in south London, the risk of uterine rupture is so high that we don’t even have figures for it. The risk is so high we don't have a number? What does that mean? Do they mean that it's so rare for someone to have 5 children and the exact combination of four C-sections and then a "natural" birth that they don't have good statistics? Or that people are told not to do it because it's unsafe and so we don't have solid evidence it's actually unsafe, similar to random controlled trials of parachutes?