I guess on the other side of the birth... recovery. I had a c/s after 24 hours of labour & the thing that made it worse wasn't the labour, but the fact that it took 6 weeks for my body to partially get back to normal. I was up and moving asap, but it took me two months to feel comfortable even giving Matilda a bath. Because it used those muscles that were a part of the c/s to hold her & in water. I was so scared of not having the control. I know that most have pain after delivering naturally but I also know that it doesn't take as long to recover from something your body was made to do, rather than a c/s that your body wasn't made to have happen. HTH