I helped deliver both our children by natural birth. I cut the umbilical cords. Natural birth is painful to the mother. The birth canal is small, and the baby’s head is large. The OB-GYN doctor performs episiotomy which is basically cutting muscles of the birth canal to expand it so there is less tearing inside birth canal. There is profuse amount of bleeding. I am so thankful to be a male!
The reason many modern women are opting for C-sections is it avoids the severe pain before child birth, and loss of elasticity of the vaginal muscles due to possible need for episiotomy. With C-Section, the mother is under general anesthesia and feels no pain during child birth. Only pain is during healing process of pelvic incision, which is no where as bad as during pre-birth contractions.
Reminds me of what a certain comedian, who is now disgraced, once said. "Natural childbirth, the mother doesn't get any drugs.....The father can get all he wants."
“The reason many modern women are opting for C-sections is it avoids the severe pain before child birth, “
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It’s major surgery.
After natural birth you get back in action much sooner.
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