health and fitness: There is nothing wrong with a C-section – so let’s quit judging other mothers

samedi 2 avril 2016

There is nothing wrong with a C-section – so let’s quit judging other mothers

If you want an experience, go to Disneyland. If you want a healthy baby, do whatever works

Ladies! How do you know you are good at this mothering schtick? Is it from how happy and healthy your children are? Please. The judgment is passed before your child’s feet have touched the ground: it’s all in the way you gave birth to them.

A spectacularly stupid story recently ran in several newspapers, claiming that “demanding middle-class mothers” are behind the rising caesarean birth rate. The Royal Free hospital in north London, these newspapers gasped, delivers 28% of babies by C-section. “Some women do opt for a caesarean section because they can’t cope with the uncertainty,” Louise Silverton, director for midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives tutted. “They control the rest of their lives, but they can’t control labour.”