Doctors warn of alarming C-section 'epidemic'

Post by thewizardofaus » Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 6:25 AM UTC

cellis wrote: post #6

DoreenMichele wrote: post #5

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I actually think it is probably more insidious than that. We have a lot fewer full-time homemakers. Women are much more likely to have paid jobs. The only way to schedule the birth is by scheduling a C-section. Waiting for the baby to show up when it decides to do so is a very organic, let nature take its course, humble thing to do and it is pretty alien to how most people live these days in developed countries. Hist…

Actually historically, we foraged and hunted. After reading Sapiens I’m convinced that farming actually set humans on the path towards this very suffering. Large scale war, famine and pretty much every post agrarian revolution ill, is a direct consequence of having food surpluses.

Post by harry8 » Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 6:26 AM UTC

grecy wrote: post #7

My sister-in-law just had her first baby, and got very into all of these statistics and the "medical industrial complex take on childbirth" I believe the WHO recommends around 10-15% of births should be C-Section in a healthy population, but the figures in first world countries are at least 3-5 times that. There are about 3 million stories of ladies "booking in" their birth a month or three in advance. I.e. I want my…

Post by newnewpdro » Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 6:55 AM UTC

cellis wrote: post #6

DoreenMichele wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually think it is probably more insidious than that. We have a lot fewer full-time homemakers. Women are much more likely to have paid jobs. The only way to schedule the birth is by scheduling a C-section. Waiting for the baby to show up when it decides to do so is a very organic, let nature take its course, humble thing to do and it is pretty alien to how most people live these days in developed countries. Hist…

Actually historically, we foraged and hunted. After reading Sapiens I’m convinced that farming actually set humans on the path towards this very suffering. Large scale war, famine and pretty much every post agrarian revolution ill, is a direct consequence of having food surpluses.

Post by rodgerd » Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 7:11 AM UTC

paavoova wrote: post #16

harry8 wrote: post #8

Ok so no mention of the health implications of so called "natural" childbirth, which aren't trivial and have an increasing risk as your age. No mention of the rising age of mothers in wealthy countries. No mention of different trade offs for fit 19 year olds and less active 35 year olds. A lot of 30+ women decide they don't want to piss their pants and have painful intercourse for the rest of their lives. Word gets a…

Women have been giving birth since creation with minimal enough problems for humans to survive and succeed as a species - it absolutely is natural, no idea why you put that in quotations. Why stop at C-sections? Raise them in test tubes a la Brave New World, skip the biological process entirely. After all, it's much safer, quite possibly even zero risks on the woman's part. The thing with C-sections is that until fai…

Post by vladgur » Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 7:12 AM UTC

sergers wrote: post #10

harry8 wrote: post #8

Ok so no mention of the health implications of so called "natural" childbirth, which aren't trivial and have an increasing risk as your age. No mention of the rising age of mothers in wealthy countries. No mention of different trade offs for fit 19 year olds and less active 35 year olds. A lot of 30+ women decide they don't want to piss their pants and have painful intercourse for the rest of their lives. Word gets a…

"A lot of 30+ women decide they don't want to piss their pants and have painful intercourse for the rest of their lives." Not specifically only for those reasons, my wife always wanted a c-section birth due to the risks with vaginal birth and recovery times.