Sunday, April 30, 20069
"Too posh to push"
C-sections are up in the UK as well:
Last year the government introduced a new coding system that classifies caesareans as either elective or emergency. Preliminary figures show that, last year, 45% were elective, compared with 55% classified as emergency procedures. This compares with an estimated 7.5% elective sections in 1998.
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Anonymous
An elective cesarean section is a natural birth. Only emergency ceareans are unnatural. This is 2006.
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Samson Isberg
Anon 6:38 - I didn't catch the name of the planet you're from?
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ipanema
I gave birth to my children thru CS, it was an emergency case. I had heart palpitation.
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Samson Isberg
It isn't. The man is mad.
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ipanema
:) thanks Simon.
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ipanema
SAMSON. So, sorry.
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Anonymous
The purpose of choosing to become pregnant is to raise a healthy child. The purpose of a delivery is to have a healthy baby at the appropriate time.
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Anonymous
To Anon 7:42 am
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Samson Isberg
That's the planet that is dark, forbidding and impossible to view with the naked eye?
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6:42 AM
I didn't know that elective CS is considered natural birth?
8:15 AM
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11:48 AM
11:49 AM
The application of cesarean section rates as score-keeping is inappropriate. Each patient is unique. No one gets 25% of a cesarean section nor 75% of a vaginal delivery.
I couldn't tell you what my cesarean section rate is and I refuse to care. I stopped keeping track 8 years ago. I have seen practitioners delay appropriate operative delivery because of pressure that their cesarean section rate for a given period of time was getting too high. It's equivalent to a pediatrician delaying or refusing to evaluate possible meningitis because she's performed too many spinal taps this year. Flawed thinking.
11:49 AM
The answer is Uranus.
12:18 PM
2:34 PM