Ending the childbearing years on a high note
Ending the childbearing years on a high note
Many argue that's the reason the caesarean rates continue to climb. In this country, about one in every four babies is delivered by caesarean, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. That rate rises to one in two babies for moms over the age of 40.
Tchir thinks it all comes down to liability. "I feel like C-sections are easier for doctors. They can schedule them. They get paid more."Edmonton obstetrician Dr. Jonathan Tankel says that, overall, a vaginal birth is safer than a caesarean. But "you've got to weigh up the pros and cons."
Moms are offered a VBAC after one caesarean, he says, but after two caesareans, VBACs are generally sexy underwear not supported. "You're weighing up risks."
Mapp says her doctor "actively discouraged" a VBAC after just one caesarean. She insisted and had a successful vaginal delivery. "Recovering from a caesarean is hard when sexy underwear you have a two-year-old at home who wants to be carried."
Tchir says educating herself was key. It helped her build the confidence to deliver naturally, drugfree.
Tankel says simply that, "with any pregnancy, the desired outcome is a healthy mom, with a healthy baby right behind."
Of course, happily (and healthily) ever after is the ideal. But is the medical community being overly cautious? Mapp says moms should be given more information on the impacts of multiple caesareans. A paper in the September 2011 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology highlights that the chances of serious health problems for moms increase with each caesarean. More hysterectomies. More blood transfusions. More surgical injuries.
Tchir isn't telling women to disregard their obstetricians.
She isn't telling expectant moms to insist on a VBAC at all costs.
She just wants parents-to-be do their homework so they can make an informed decision, one that isn't unfairly influenced by fearmongering.
"A lot of women think, whatever tide queen the doctors say goes, but it's your body," she says.
She and her husband aren't having any more children (too many Halloween costumes to organize, for starters). But she says Jovanna's arrival ended her child-bearing days on a high note
Many argue that's the reason the caesarean rates continue to climb. In this country, about one in every four babies is delivered by caesarean, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. That rate rises to one in two babies for moms over the age of 40.
Tchir thinks it all comes down to liability. "I feel like C-sections are easier for doctors. They can schedule them. They get paid more."Edmonton obstetrician Dr. Jonathan Tankel says that, overall, a vaginal birth is safer than a caesarean. But "you've got to weigh up the pros and cons."
Moms are offered a VBAC after one caesarean, he says, but after two caesareans, VBACs are generally sexy underwear not supported. "You're weighing up risks."
Mapp says her doctor "actively discouraged" a VBAC after just one caesarean. She insisted and had a successful vaginal delivery. "Recovering from a caesarean is hard when sexy underwear you have a two-year-old at home who wants to be carried."
Tchir says educating herself was key. It helped her build the confidence to deliver naturally, drugfree.
Tankel says simply that, "with any pregnancy, the desired outcome is a healthy mom, with a healthy baby right behind."
Of course, happily (and healthily) ever after is the ideal. But is the medical community being overly cautious? Mapp says moms should be given more information on the impacts of multiple caesareans. A paper in the September 2011 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology highlights that the chances of serious health problems for moms increase with each caesarean. More hysterectomies. More blood transfusions. More surgical injuries.
Tchir isn't telling women to disregard their obstetricians.
She isn't telling expectant moms to insist on a VBAC at all costs.
She just wants parents-to-be do their homework so they can make an informed decision, one that isn't unfairly influenced by fearmongering.
"A lot of women think, whatever tide queen the doctors say goes, but it's your body," she says.
She and her husband aren't having any more children (too many Halloween costumes to organize, for starters). But she says Jovanna's arrival ended her child-bearing days on a high note
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