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0 pointseverdev7y ago0 comments

This source seems anti-natural from birth to breastfeeding.

Medicine can certainly help improve things but if you've been through the birth process multiple times it's clear that doctors try to steer you towards C-section.

Several of them have confided to us that it's primarily because of insurance. The hospital procedures want women in C-section for a few reasons:

1. The procedure is expensive (surgeon, anesthesiologist, etc.)

2. The procedure is fast (30-45min) and can be scheduled allowing the hospital to deliver more babies with less staff

3. The recovery period is longer (2-3 day recovery period as opposed to 8-24 hours for natural birth) generating revenue for longer while only being care from relatively inexpensive nurses.

Sure, there are many times when C-section is appropriate and has saved lives, but it's currently being over prescribed because of hospital guidelines that doctor's need to follow or risk malpractice liability.

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rayiner7y ago

> This source seems anti-natural from birth to breastfeeding.

Well yes, because the author is a doctor. The maternal death rate from "natural" child birth is 1,000-1,500 per 100,000 births. In the U.S., it is just 26.4.

> Sure, there are many times when C-section is appropriate and has saved lives, but it's currently being over prescribed because of hospital guidelines that doctor's need to follow or risk malpractice liability.

The data in fact shows no evidence that it is being "over-prescribed." If it were, you would expect to see worse maternal outcomes in countries with higher rates of C sections, and you do not.