Vaginal births are definitely more natural, but not always better. As I said in my case, my children would never have passed and would have both died, not to mention probably killed me too. Many woman have died due to not being able to have a c-section (I'm talking in the past...before it became a science). And as someone has stated in this thread...women are capable of delivering a child vaginally after a c-section. Many have done so. They are things that should be discussed with your doctor in detail when pregnant.
Laura,
Vaginal births are always better! In your case, your body didn't function the way it was supposed to, so a C-section was required, however, had your body functioned the way it was supposed to, a vaginal birth would have been better for your kids.
As far as vaginally babies being happier, that's so ridiculous (IMO). Both my kids were the happiest babies ever. Always laughing, always well behaved. Both were walking and talking early. My son has always been in advanced classes and my daughter graduated a year early. IMO it seams more traumatic to squeezed slowly through a small hole (hearing the mom screaming, lol) than it is to be pulled out a larger one, lol.
It may be
ridiculous in your opinion, but it is a
fact in the
greater body of knowledge.A good deal of the
"trauma" involved in vaginal hospital births have to do with the environment itself.
When you couple that with the drugs they use, which prolongs labour, it is bound to be traumatic. Now the child is delivered in an unnatural position, which is not conducive to labour, brought out of his/her warm home into a freezing cold environment, with bright lights, and some SOB grabs him by the ankles, turns him upside down and slaps him on the ass real hard? You'd be traumatized too.
I'll agree the recovery time is definitely greater, but it really doesn't take anything away from the baby. You have a couple of weeks of not being able to drive or lift things over 10 pounds. But, I think those small sacrifices are worth what I brought home.
Duh, ...of course it is when you look at the alternative in your particular individual case, ...however, the greater point of this thread that BayGBM was getting at, and which the film depicts is that the majority of C-Sections done in America are done for the convenience of the doctor and profit to the system, rather than for what is best for women and their children.
C-Sections deprive the baby of their passage through the birth canal. There are energy meridians throughout the body and certain chakra points that align along the spine. Western science has long poo-pooed these areas which are common knowledge in Eastern philosophies, areas that modern Western science is just catching on to. During gestation, the fetus is curled up without much opportunity to flex it's muscles so to speak, just as it cannot use it's lungs during gestation, so too are it's chakra energy centres dormant. The passage through the birth canal brings the spine into alignment, and activates these chakra points. When lifted out of the womb, this does not occur.