In praise of the C-Section

[Mummato2]

When we are bombarded with messages that epidurals are a godsend, that docs know exactly what they're doing, and that we must be good little girls and do just what the doc says, no wonder women get angry when they realise just how disempowered their whole approach to reproduction has been. It is NOT an individual failing if a woman chooses interventions that harm her or her baby - it is societal and something that has been actively thrust onto us all our lives. So, yeah, I have to disagree with that, too, though I can see how it appears that way on the surface.

No see I agree with that - my point has been missed.

What I meant was it's unfair of a woman to blame her direct action (in this example pushing prior to being fully dilated) on an epidural which clearly had no bearing on whether her cervix would have torn or not. I agree that it isn't a failing if a woman chooses interventions - my first labour was filled with them by my own choosing!

I just feel that where there is blame on interventions for blames sake, we are giving the OB's exactly what they want!