Wow! That was eye openning Caroline! There are two issues that stand out to me... One is: women are not educated on the effects of drugs on their babies and two: there is still a perception that women want, beg for, must have a caesarean and the doctors are holding back. If that is the case then the medical establishment has managed to royaly screw up women's perceptions of birth these past 30 odd years. How are we supposed to counteract that?
In many ways I am really glad that my first caesarean was as horrendous as it was because otherwise I wouldn't have gone down this road at all. While we have women saying: "well my caesar went well and I'm okay" (fancy thinking your priority is to go back to work 2 weeks after a baby is born! Gotta wonder what hormones were or were not working there) we don't have that many talking opennly about their negative experiences because they don't get listened to. At least that part is starting to change. In my case nearly everything went wrong... Failed induction...emergency caesarean...inadequate anaesthetic... Knocked unconsious, difficulty bonding....post-op infection.... PND.... Post Traumatic Stress. We need to get women's stories out there. Onward and upward... Cas Cas McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.casmccullough.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
