Re: Mothers are more apathetic towards their children if they were CSDs
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What are those “set of problems”? As I already stated, what exactly is this “study” proving? Nothing as far as I’m concerned given all the flaws in it.
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I am a woman who has never been pregnant/given birth. You are a man thus you will never experience pregnancy/labor. Its ridiculous for people like us to pass any type of judgments on women who make choices to make the process of labor/birth easier on themselves. We have no idea what its like to be in that situation physically/psychologically, and neither one of us can really imagine the pain of giving birth.
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It is up to the pregnant woman and her doctor to decide when a CS is “necessary”. None of us have any right to to ask another woman to justify why she had a CS. For example…one of my close friends had a CS. When probed by nosy people…she simply told most people that she chose it b/c she was too scared of labor. I have no doubt people like you passed judgments on her for her choice. Her real reason? She was raped as a teenager. Thus, the idea of giving birth vaginally and having nurses/docs etc. touching her so intimately and not being in control of her body was traumatic to her. She was seeing a therapist throughout her entire pregnancy to try to get over this and finally, around her due date…after discussing her history/current mental state with her therapist AND OB…everyone agreed that a CS was best in her situation even though there was no physical medical justification for it. My point being that even in cases where we’re being told the CS was “elective”…we may not know the true reason behind it. So by reminding CS moms that they didn’t have a “normal delivery”…we may be doing more harm than good by making them feel that they’re somehow inferior to VD moms.
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Yes, this specific study was about elective CS. So what? What were the authors criteria for calling a CS “elective”? If I’m not mistaken…they’re not OBs. So is the “elective” designation given by the OBs of those 6 women OR did the authors of the study come up with a certain set of guidelines to decide which CS was elective?
In addition, they did their test 2-4 weeks after delivery. As I said already…whether its elective or not…it’s ridiculous to compare a woman who had major abdominal surgery to a VD mom who may not have had any complications. Without knowing the details of how easy or difficult those VD births were…and whether or not the CS moms had any issues recovering from the CS (ie. infection incision) and were taking strong pain meds…none of us know if the authors of the study were comparing apples to apples.