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Very well said KFish!!

I had the same problem with the pitocin and magnesium...I didn't know at the time that they would counteract each other. The hospital I was at was the best in my city (out of maybe 20) and I just a__sumed the doctors knew best. I swore I wouldn't have another baby, but three years later I did. It was so much easier than the first time around, because it was planned. I did have my tubes tied and it both gives me peace of mind, to know I won't have another complicated pregnancy and c-section, and makes me sad, to know that the two kids I have are it for me.

To all, it is agreed that c-sections can be great tools to help women and babies and I am sad that you all had so much happen to you. Some situations clearly warrant interventions and then the other ones don't...why can't we find the balance? Thanks for your posts, keep it up!

My mom told me a lot of csecs are scheduled for thursdays because drs don't want to be called in on their weekends off, anyone else hear/notice this?

Don't say they don't want to be called in - the thing is, if he's out playing golf somewhere, and you suddenly are rushed in for your surgery - he may not be able to get there as fast. They're still humans, they get a life too. Hell, when I schedule things for work, I like to avoid working on the weekend.

its easlier for husbands-well those who don't work on the weekends!! It doesn't cut into our weekly pay if you know what I mean!!! He only misses 2 days of work-I had an emergency c on a sunday and my hub missed two days and had to go in on wednesday to be sure that he would get some sort of check. I say go with thursdays!!!

My husband actually was able to get a lot more time with me and the baby because of my complications; he's in the military - as soon as we found out I was pregnant, he put in for "open leave", so that he could sign out the minute I had the baby, and not ahve to worry about it. Because I had the c-section, and had to stay in the hospital 5 additional days, his unit didn't make him sign out on his leave til after I was released - so he got 7 days with us, beyond his leave.

That's cool last post!

Yep; that's the silver lining! LOL - that, and my beautiful angel of a daughter.

There are too many being done for shady "reasons". Some of the increase is simply in the once a c always a c mentality that took over again in the past few years. But, on CBS morning there is a very recent show where a doctor said they are now looking at that and the study is starting to refute the danger level and numbers that have been used to make the case for repeat c's.

All this c___p about wether a woman should have a right to choose a c-section....this is all c___p...shut up. Women need to educate themselves about c-section and when one is necessary. Reserch their doctors and see how many c-sections their doctor has done in the past. To many unnecessary surgery's are being done on mothers for the doctors $$ profit. My wife and I have reserched alot and talked, and a c-section is not an option other then with breech birth or b___t first and folded in half, or it takes an excessive long time for dilevery....like 36+ hours. Our fisrt child had my wife in dilivery for 20 hours and it was standard procedure. No c-section, but she had pitosin and an epidural. Every woman should get as much information about dilivery as possible and they should make a dicission that they are comfortable with. Dont let fear keep you from experiencing the joy of the birth and life of yor child. C-sections dont need to be done as much as they are being done. There is a BIG problem.

There are too many episiotomies going on and that is part of the reason why women want c-sections. And if you were a woman you would understand. Every woman's v____a does not automatically stretch enough to accommodate delivery of a baby without v____al intervention. No woman wants her genitals cut up and no woman or doctor knows in advance of labour day if she is going to need an episiotomy or not. A woman can have no episiotomy written in her birth plan but if a doctor feels one is necessary for the safe delivery of the baby then out comes the episiotomy scissors and sometimes the forceps and/or vacuum extractor right along with it. And that makes a woman feel violated, not to mention the lasting damage that an episiotomy causes for a lot of women.

Why is the way a woman gives birth to her child another womans buisness?

Get off this site if you are going to be rude or militant. There is the other forum for your harsh att_tudes....GO! It is PERFECTLY acceptable to agree there are some unnecessary c-sections going on if you apply the actual medical standards for necessity. I am encouraged that Austin (if indeed a male) is even interested in discussing birthing and I do not want rude and one-sided posters commandeering this forum like they did the elective c/s one. Keep it civil or go away. There is, by the way, also lasting damage from cesareans that are life altering and require follow up surgeries too, and if women are "cut up" during episiotomies, what the heck is it when they go all the way to the uterus from the abdomen? On this forum we refuse to get into that nasty t_t-for-tat debate. Thanks for respecting that.

This is a public forum. You do not have the authority to tell people to "get off this site".

No, but we can certainly ask that people not duplicate the hostility that took over the other forum can't we? Your opinion is just as valued as anyone else's, as long as you don't take pot shots at people or use sarcasm. Those att_tudes diminish the discussion and only allow the most aggressive posters to have their say. Some of us want a non-hostile environment in which to share without personal attacks or one-sided positions only. It is perfectly fine to think that there is no problem with the increase in c-sections, but there also is a justifiable cause for concern that so many women seem to "need" them now, women who going in didn't even choose an elective c...that is the gist of this forum, WHY??? What happened to women's pelvises? That is what this forum is about, we even added why all the cutting of women down below too, for those who have a strong feeling about v____al sections as well. All friends here, if you'd like to be. Ok?