And just precisely WHO is more qualified to make that decision? You? What are your credentials? If you have chosen a doctor you can’t/don’t/won’t trust, the error is yours. It is a medical decision, and there is nobody more qualified than your physician to give you adequate advice.
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Please cite the source of your statistics. I hope you’re using medical literature and not newspaper clippings. Precisely where is this great C-section conspiracy coming from? Again, please give us citations of sources. I don’t care to be told what “they” say. I want to know who “they” is and where they said it, and where it was published. I’m talking about evidence based medicine.
Again, sources, please. What has convinced you that all OB docs are lying perpetrators of a conspiracy to make everybody get un-needed C-sections? You’re making some very serious accusations and I hope they’re made out of facts and not anger or fanaticism.
Sources for your knowledge that this is “all LIES” if you please.
The “too small ‘thing’”??? You think that doesn’t happen? Why would GOD do this? Itsy bitsy Asian women have itsy bitsy Asian fetuses. It’s a matter of proportion. God doesn’t sit there and intervene in every aspect of the genetics that make a woman’s pelvis suitable or unsuitable for childbirth. It is an absolute FACT (medical fact) that some women have bone structures too small for the safe felivery of the fetus that is within their uterus. It doesn’t matter about what happened with the first baby or the thirteenth baby. The ONLY thing that matters regarding that decision at that time is the relationship of the size of THAT fetus to the structure of the pelvic girdle at THAT time. And that relationship can change over time. So a vaginally delivered subsequent baby does NOT necessarily mean that, “Oh well, she should have or could have had the first baby vaginally.”
The simple fact that our country has over 25% csections gives the 1 in four. that isn’t rocket science. and obviously 1 out of 4 women don’t need them. for more see my first post on this matter i think it was #91
This is where common sense comes in. It is important to pick a doctor that you can trust won’t tell you you need a csection for bogus reasons. If more people did what my husband and I did , extensive education, relaxation practice for 3 months, and labor rehearsals, and ate proper nutrition, and didn’t go to the hospital too early they wouldn’t even be in the position.
I think this is a good point and probably the point Christian4life was trying to get across. I read an article last month, I think in American Baby, about how the number of elective c-sections is rapidly increasing. I think people forget that c-sections are major surgery. BUT, THEY SAVE A LOT OF LIVES. They shouldn’t be used just so you don’t miss your nail appointment or so you can pick you baby’s birthday. Although, mine is due early January, and it would be nice to have that 2005 tax deduction. Hmmm…
Eamon, this made me laugh. I’m almost 6 weeks pregnant and a little scared…my husband’s head is HUGE!! I’m not kidding! It’s like a basketball! (sorry Steve
). I just hope junior doesn’t have a head like daddy. 
While your warning seems well-intentioned, I have to say that unless something phenomenal is discovered about my bone structure, I’m still going to have a C-section when I deliver in four months. Why? Because my firstborn almost died because the doctor refused a C-section. She couldn’t fit through the birth canal (at only seven pounds) and had to be pulled with forceps. She lost a lot of oxygen and circulation while I was attempting to push her out for an hour and a half, and to this day she has brain damage and a learning delay.
This is what I do not understand. Why are some giving medical advice and encouraging distrust in those trained in the field? I am afraid it will cause unnecessary anxiety to those approaching C-sections. I would encourage people not to bite at every hyped-up article you see in a magazine and put even less faith in anecdotal evidence offered by friends and relatives (or strangeres).