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tammylc wasn't kidding when she said that there wasn't much out there on the web for women having Cesarean births.
Not much you'd want to read, anyway, if you think you're going to have one.
The first hit on Google for "cesarean section" is at childbirth.org, usually a good general information site. But their C-section page starts with a link to "Books on Labor, Birth, Cesarean and VBAC [vaginal birth after cesarean]" in which only one book about C-sections is recommended. It's called The Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and VBAC. The other books with "Cesarean" in the title are all about VBAC. The childbirth.org list of links continues: How to avoid an unnecessary section, risks of Cesarean section, Cesarean fact sheet (which contains not one piece of positive information about the procedure), VBAC checklist... halfway down the page there's a link to a short FAQ on planning your Cesarean, something about "family-centered Cesareans," and a link that doesn't work but claims to be about breastfeeding after C-section. But to get there, if you're reading down the list, you go through a poem about being DISEMBOWELLED ALIVE (emphasis theirs) and literally more than a dozen articles about C-sections being bad and unnecessary and dangerous.
Yes, I know that there are too many C-sections performed in the United States. But the World Health Organization estimates that the rate should be around 10-15%. That's still one in ten births. Shouldn't there be at least a little bit of positive information out there for those women?
My midwife recommended a twenty-year-old book called The Cesarean Birth Experience. The physical stuff is probably somewhat out of date - although from the other reading I've done, it doesn't seem that much has changed. The sections on emotional and family aspects, and the advice about making your Cesarean as birthlike as possible, are wonderfully helpful and reassuring. But the book's out of print. (I found it on Amazon - it wasn't at my library.)
The single most breathtakingly hurtful thing that I have seen: an offhand comment on a message board, one woman talking about another. "Both of her kids were C-sections, so she's never given birth."
Ow.
My midwife says: "This is still your birth." I'm trying to have that be my mantra.
Since I saw the midwife last week, there is ( new news. )
tammylc wasn't kidding when she said that there wasn't much out there on the web for women having Cesarean births.Not much you'd want to read, anyway, if you think you're going to have one.
The first hit on Google for "cesarean section" is at childbirth.org, usually a good general information site. But their C-section page starts with a link to "Books on Labor, Birth, Cesarean and VBAC [vaginal birth after cesarean]" in which only one book about C-sections is recommended. It's called The Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and VBAC. The other books with "Cesarean" in the title are all about VBAC. The childbirth.org list of links continues: How to avoid an unnecessary section, risks of Cesarean section, Cesarean fact sheet (which contains not one piece of positive information about the procedure), VBAC checklist... halfway down the page there's a link to a short FAQ on planning your Cesarean, something about "family-centered Cesareans," and a link that doesn't work but claims to be about breastfeeding after C-section. But to get there, if you're reading down the list, you go through a poem about being DISEMBOWELLED ALIVE (emphasis theirs) and literally more than a dozen articles about C-sections being bad and unnecessary and dangerous.
Yes, I know that there are too many C-sections performed in the United States. But the World Health Organization estimates that the rate should be around 10-15%. That's still one in ten births. Shouldn't there be at least a little bit of positive information out there for those women?
My midwife recommended a twenty-year-old book called The Cesarean Birth Experience. The physical stuff is probably somewhat out of date - although from the other reading I've done, it doesn't seem that much has changed. The sections on emotional and family aspects, and the advice about making your Cesarean as birthlike as possible, are wonderfully helpful and reassuring. But the book's out of print. (I found it on Amazon - it wasn't at my library.)
The single most breathtakingly hurtful thing that I have seen: an offhand comment on a message board, one woman talking about another. "Both of her kids were C-sections, so she's never given birth."
Ow.
My midwife says: "This is still your birth." I'm trying to have that be my mantra.
Since I saw the midwife last week, there is ( new news. )
