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MY C-SECTION COMPARED TO MY NATURAL DELIVERIES

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This is about my experience and thoughts about deliveries. This is not comparable as such to anyone’s individual birthing experience, but it has a message that might be useful to someone.  I read a couple of articles yesterday about C-sections on my Facebook stream.  One of them  was about how C-sections are best with a little labor, meaning that the labor starts in itself and includes some of the “you’re about to be born” messages to the fetus. I’m a bit puzzled about cesarean sections gaining popularity in our society. Especially I’m surprised about the increasing number of planned C-sections. There are well studied reasons why they are popular in  some parts of South America for example , which is mainly to do with the doctors scheduling instead of respecting the natural run of labor. To see the practice gain ground in our society however makes me uneasy. The reasons women go through a surgery vary from complications during pregnancies, avoiding risk factors to simply be