Mothers are more apathetic towards their children if they were CSDs

[Paheli00]

Re: Mothers are more apathetic towards their children if they were CSDs

@psyah

So I’m not saying CS mothers are inferior - I’m saying they may find it harder to respond - it may come less naturally to them -

I never said that you said CS mothers are inferior. I’m saying that using words like “normal” when it comes to method of birth isn’t a good idea. One doesn’t have to be a genius to realize that referring to vaginal birth as “normal”…in effect telling CS mothers that they did not have a “normal” delivery can make CS mom’s experience negative feelings including feeling that they’re somehow inferior.

@psyah

Likewise, if the results are something to be relied on … CSD mothers may find it harder to respond, but when doing so I believe will be given double reward because it is harder for them.

Let me repeat once again…it’s ridiculous to rely on a “study” of 12 women to draw ANY conclusions. Find a study that includes a decent number of women and let’s start there. I also pointed out some other flaws with this earlier.

And there we go again with comparisons. Who finds it harder to respond…who will get double reward, whose mothering process is more natural etc. Why do we need to compare one mother to another? Especially when we don’t know details of what’s going on with her body and how she’s actually responding to her baby’s needs behind closed doors.

P.S. And no, there is no logical reason to believe that a CSD mom will find it harder to respond simply b/c she had a CSD (going back to every situation being unique). We don’t know the details of what specifcaly lead to CS and how recovery is going. Just like we don’t know how delivery/recovery is going for each VD mom.

@psyah

My line of argument here - is perhaps favouring the choice of VD in order to make the mothering process easier and more natural.

How about you post a reliable study with a large sample that supports your argument. Let me copy/paste what I wrote in my 1st post on this thread: The authors present no evidence that the brain image pattern has anything to do with the mother’s response to her baby’s cry. There is a flawed assumption that the two different brain image patterns they observed reflect a fundamental difference in the actual reaction of the mother.

BTW, I know you weren’t referring to emegency CS. I brought up the elective CS issues b/c you and another member pointed out that this study is about elective CS. And my point was that we still have no idea what criteria the authors of the study used to determine that the CS was “elective”.