C Section Quotes

“The problem is that doctors today often assume that something mysterious and unidentified has gone wrong with labor or that the woman's body is somehow "inadequate" - what I call the "woman's body as a lemon" assumption. For a variety of reasons, a lot of women have also come to believe that nature made a serious mistake with their bodies. This belief has become so strong in many that they give in to pharmaceutical or surgical treatments when patience and recognition of the normality and harmlessness of the situation would make for better health for them and their babies and less surgery and technological intervention in birth. Most women need encouragement and companionship more than they need drugs.”
― Ina May Gaskin

“Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“To be honest, I’m still not okay with it.
To be honest, I still get really fucking angry about it.
To be honest, I struggle when I put my focus on that pinched skin. To be honest, I will always take a breath before I bare myself naked to a partner.
To be honest, I still struggle to run my fingers across it in the bathtub.”
― S.D.G.

“the risks associated with VBAC are lower than the risks associated with repeat Cesarean.”
― Genevieve Howland, The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth