Posted on 10/12/2018 8:04:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Doctors' use of Caesarean section to deliver babies has nearly doubled in 15 years to reach "alarming" proportions in some countries, a study says.
Rates surged from about 16 million births (12%) in 2000 to an estimated 29.7 million (21%) in 2015, the report in the medical journal The Lancet said.
The nation with the highest rate for using the surgery to assist childbirth is the Dominican Republic with 58.1%.
Doctors say in many cases the use of the medical procedure is unjustified
A Caesarean section can be a life-saving procedure for both mother and infant if, for example, a baby is in an awkward position in the womb or if labour is not progressing as it should be.
Jane Sandall, professor of social science and women's health at King's College London and an author of one of the studies, told the BBC that the risk for mothers and babies can be both short and long-term.
"In particular, C-sections have a more complicated recovery for the mother, and lead to scarring of the womb, which is associated with bleeding, abnormal development of the placenta, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies."
Prof Sandall says it is important to note that these are small but serious risks, but each of these risks increases with each time a woman undergoes the surgery.
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Rich and wealthy nations demographic?
Makes it easier for doc. Nothing to do w/patient.
C-section = low chance of malpractice lawsuit.
Birth canal childbirth can be risky, and people like to sue. C-section is less likely to lead to medical complications. So, better to just slice ‘em all open than do it the old fashioned way.
I learned this when my oldest daughter was born - birth canal, btw. She’s now 37.
Nope, most doctors in universal health care economies receive some kind of kickback for operations.
They thus needlessly assign operations in order to get paid more.
I once broke my collar bone in Japan, and the doctor insisted I get surgery to rectify it. I asked for a sling or brace and the doctor refused to give me one. It’s the difference in him making 0 yen compared to 500,000 for the surgery.
My wife had a botched emergency C-section many years ago. It is a miracle that she lived through it. They even managed to give her the wrong blood type after she started hemorrhaging. It took other surgeries to try and fix the damage that was caused.
I remember when my wife and all her friends were in the zone for pregnancy some of them would sometimes talk about wanting a c-section instead of natural birth. I think they hear all the “oh there’s nothing in the world more painful that childbirth” stuff and were scared. My wife never considered it but some of her friends certainly at least thought about it. One actually did end up having a C-section, I have no idea if it was medically necessary or not.
Wanting a C-section instead of normal childbirth I think isn’t logical. You both go through labor, which is the painful part, and afterward the C-section patient is in a lot more pain than the normal birth patient.
Also, I’m 68, have had 5 children (1 set of twins) all normal births, and I just learned a few months ago from my daughter who is a nurse that the normal birth is better for the health of the baby since it helps remove more fluid from the baby’s lungs. Learn something every day.
Three reasons for this:
- birth can be scheduled, and it’s never in the middle of the night.
- less waiting, less chance of lawsuit
- higher fee
I wonder if there is something about socialized medicine payments at work here.
Perhaps doctors recognized they get those kickbacks automatically in the system if they do an procedure
labeled “emergency.”
I guess I do need to correct my statement, not all go through labor, some C-sections are scheduled but many happen after the woman has been through some labor.
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.
and (4) the vagina remains in better natural shape, like a woman who never had children.
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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That is not correct. The mother can get a strong pain medication delivered directly into the spine.
A lot of women don’t want the spinal because of side effects.
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Thee pain during labor and child birth itself can be dreadfully severe. Recovery from abdominal incision for C-section is much less. I had my gall bladder removed the old fashion way with a 6” long incision. Yes, it was a 3 week recovery to heal, but so long as I did not move around, there was hardly any pain.
When I visited the surgeon to remove stitches, he joked, mine was the last surgery he did the old fashioned way. Now on he does it the laparoscopy procedure hahaha.
“Thee pain during labor and child birth itself can be dreadfully severe”
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I know,I went through it-—but would still prefer it to surgery.
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When I had mine cholecystectomy surgery (removing gall bladder) I think the anesthetist gave me too much dose. Because right after surgery I had irregular heartbeats which lasted several months, almost a year. Then it went away.
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