I continue to be devastated when a hear about women that have voluntary cesareans. I’m really struggling to understand what they are thinking when they make the decision to do this. Are they afraid of the pain of natural child birth? Do they think it’s more dangerous to have a child naturally? Do they not want to stretch their “you know what”? Do they want to “fit it in” to their schedule?….I just don’t know and I really don’t get it!!
As a woman we are given a few very special gifts. We are given the gift of growing a brand new human being inside ourselves, the gift of bringing it into this world in a beautiful way and the gift of feeding it from ourselves in it’s earliest life. The woman’s body and the baby itself are all designed to perfectly compliment these… and each of these gifts are the most special and amazing things that we as women can experience in our life!
The process of natural child birth is so right…the excitement and pain of the mother’s contractions stimulate her and get her psychologically ready for the baby(often to the point of “just get this bloody thing out of me!”) with the change from having the baby inside of us to having the baby outside of us, as well as physically ready to feed the baby. The baby itself is stimulated through the process of the birth preparing it physically through the massaging of all parts of it’s body during the birthing process and mentally “waking it up” to the new world. What could be more perfect!
I’ll never forget the incredible sensation of my babies “slipping out of me”. Yes, there was a hell of a lot of pain to get to that point but the final feeling of them coming out I will never forget…it was so beautiful. This is the only time in a humans life when great pain is rewarded with something so, so, so much more! Think about it…if we didn’t need to go through so much pain to receive our child…would we really value it as much?, would we really value ourselves so much?, would we have the right to feel so proud and for our husbands to be proud of us?…even the pain plays a critical role in the whole wondrous experience.
When did women get so weak that we fear a little pain??!!….especially when it’s for a short time only(what’s a day in our life!) and with such an incredible reward.
I really just feel so sorry for those that choose to take the easy way out…they don’t know and will never know what they have missed!
P.S. I am definitely NOT against emergency cesareans. These are needed and we should embrace and be thankful for the medical advancements that enabled such a procedure to save mothers and babies lives.
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