Hmm. I see where you're coming from - sometimes they CS horror stories aren't spoken about - sometimes they're too trumatic for women to speak about, and sometimes the complications are accepted as part of the process. It's been suggested by recent research that you're something like 7 times as likely to die following a CS (but bear in mind the chances of dying are really low - about 8 / 100,000). The chances of the baby needing oxygen and having respiratory distress can be as high as 30%. Bleeding is very common but not every woman needs a blood transfusion. infections can be common too, but most are easily treated with antibiotics. I have known 6 women to need hysterectomies (this is in 8 years) owing to excessive blood loss or massive infection. DVTs, pulmonary embolus and blood clots are being seen more, and some hospitals have started treating women preventatively for this.

On the other side, the chance of uterine rupture is about 0.5% (so 99.5% unlikely).