The "Emergency" C-Section

A jaded of view of America's most overused surgical procedure.
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• xtranormal
• VBAC
• c-section
• cesareans
• OB/GYN
• OBGYN
• birth
• waterbirth
• midwife
• Miriam Pearson-MArtinez

[mpearson74]

The authors of tins video have no personal agenda. They have never had a c-section. They are simply a midwife and doctor sick of US obstetrics and it's indifference to women and science.

[mpearson74]

@annalise61107 there are reasons the breastfeeding rate is low in this country. One person's experience does not speak for the many who didn't receive the great care you obviously had. So sad that more women don't get the support they need, but good or you.

[mpearson74]

@annalise61107. When you say just like the lies the midwives told me one would assume that yj were speaking directly to the content of the video.

[mpearson74]

@annalise61107 so the national published rate of sections and the call be the national institute of health are all lies. I am glad you were satisfied with your birth, but may women aren't. Most sections in the US are unnecessary (world health organization) and lead to high rates of complications and unnecessary risk.

[MrCow75]

YA!! This is SOOOO... true!! Doctors are evil!

Maternal death rates have dropped by about 100 times in the last century (yes, you are 100 times less likely to die giving birth today, in the US, than 100 years ago), but I'm sure medical science has nothing to do with that....

Please, stop being so naive.

[mpearson74]

@MrCow75

So when you say that we are naive I think you may want to check your stats. For your personal information this video was created by a doctor and a midwife firmly planted in the medical community with a front row seat to what is happening. Unnecessary c-sections do not benefit anyone's health. Thank god we have c-sections when we need them, but also recognize that an over used major abdominal surgery has it's own risks and equal that to those of the normal vaginal birth.

[mpearson74]

@MrCow75

So the US has one of the world's highest rates of c-section yet we are 42 in maternal mortality rates. 2nd to the bottom of all developed countries and the infant morality right is the same. We lose more moms and babies than Cuba, Czech republic, Singapore etc. So tell me how c-sections have omproved maternity mortality rates? What lowers those rates are good prenatal care and low intervention rates. Even the American Congress of Ob Gyn says our section rate is out of control!

[ichigo8504]

With my first c-section, they first said he had the cord wrapped around his neck(which he didn't), then said he was too big(my VBA2C baby had a bigger head); and then they said it was my body.

[tempraryable]

hahaha this is exactly what happened to me!!!!!! i love this video

[kclind5]

love love love this video!! i am a midwife and an RN. I worked in hospitals for years, now I help deliver babies at home where it is much much safer. People have no idea of the ramifications of CSections, and interference in the birth process in general. The real info is just beginning to trickle out, and watch how the medical community will fight it! But with the ACOG recommendations of this year, things are going to start changing and people will get the facts!

[chris302001]

u mad?  lol

[orchidsummer47]

This is soo true.. I am not even pregnant yet but what I would like to happen when I am is to go to the hospital but not have ANY medication at all. NO epidural and certainly no pitocin. And to have the cord not cut till it stops pulsating. And to have the freedom to move around if I want. Not just being stuck on my back because it's easier for the doctor. And I want to breastfeed. I didn't know about the fact that sometimes they give babies formula without asking?! That's not ok.

[oneperson2person]

yes Dr. I have been paying attention, that is why I had a home birth with a midwife...is she trying to tell us something...

[Nyoohli1]

Villy0526: do you know delayed cord clamping is actually a recommendation by the World Health Organisation for the management of third stage?

There is plenty of evidence to suggest it benefits both mother and baby.

Don't you practice evidenced based practice?

[Villy0526]

Lol! It drives me crazy when patients ask for the cord to stop pulsing!!

[BlueStateChronicle]

This is damn funny. When I worked in medicine I always put the patient first, and I ate a lot of shit for it.

[57earthchild]

@MrCow75 google: doctors strike deaths decrease. and doctors strike "infant mortality".