Ok maybe I am stating the obvious bit you can't measure risk using just maternal risk can you? My dd's very emergency csection started out as a textbook labour but at the end required intervention due to foetal distress. She would have lived but I would have died and been childless forever.
In antenatal classes I remember them quoting stats on the number of us that would end up having csections. It did not even enter my mind that I would have one. In an emergency situation you are not given any chance to understand the risk but you don't care. I agree birth is a risky business. However i believe pregnancy and birth is overmedicalised in our country. I don't know what the right percentage is but has to be less than what it is now.
Last edited by anney; February 28th, 2012 at 09:03 PM.
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