A Normal Birth And C-Section

The labour is still a big fear in women life, biggest part of the woman who get pregnant are afraid of the delivering time, because it can be really complicated, and their fear is completely understandable. Some women consider c-sections from the beginning just because they do not believe that they are strong enough to deliver the baby by themselves, but the truth, is that every woman was made to be successful on a normal birth and it is clearly the best option, not just for the baby but for the mother too.

Obviously, giving birth is very painful, and the mother goes through a lot of pain in a normal/vaginal delivery. It takes a lot of energy and time. When we say energy is needed, it is mainly because of the urge of mothers to thrust and contract muscles to get the baby out from the uterus (L. Pinoy, n. d) but all these things said before are completely worth it. I do believe that Normal Birth is always the best when it is possible to do it, not just because of the period of recovery, that is faster than when they choose C-section and make mothers able to enjoy the time with the baby immediately when they come out, and with the C-section the risk of blood loss, infection, and death are increased and the recovery period takes longer because the area needs to heal properly. (L. Pinoy, n. d). When the baby is delivered by the vaginal way, the risk of the baby having issues in breathing decreases, because the fluid in the baby lungs is squeezed out during the contraction of the muscles around them when they come outside. Their immune system will function great, because when they are going through the mother’s birth canal, they are submitted to a healthy bacteria environment what will make them immunologically stronger. (L. Pinoy, n. d)

A baby delivered by Caesarean Section will be affected on their first days of life after birth, one of the examples of the ways they are being affected is on breast milk transfer. Mothers that went through a C-Section tend to have less milk to give to their babies, at least on their crucial, first week of life, a study published in September 2003 found out that “The volume of milk transferred to infants born by caesarean section was significantly less than that transferred to infants born by normal vaginal delivery on days 2 to 5”, K C Evans, et al. (2003). On their first steps in live, breast milk is essential on baby’s life, and if the Caesarean makes mothers have less milk so it is not the best option to choose to deliver the baby. “To me having a vaginal birth mattered immensely. I would have been devastated to have had to undergo a c-section.

Again, it’s all about it being a rite of passage. I didn’t feel comfortable with the idea of my baby’s first moments being in an operating room, being pulled from my womb by hands unrelated to it, then being whisked away. (Nina)” (Normal Childbirth, Susan Downe, page 69, n. d), on this words told by Nina, it is clear that the c-section does not allow you to build that first seconds love that you are able to construct when you have a normal delivery, because there are “love hormones” called oxytocin, that are produced during the labour causes contractions and make the mother develop the mother-baby bond and relationship and helps with breastfeeding. (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, n. d). Most people say that delivering a baby trough the birth canal can be too stressful for them, and that that is not good to them, but as Hugo Lagercrantz and Theodore A. Slotkin said “The stress of journeying through the birth canal is not harmful to most infants.

In fact, the surge of “stress” hormones it triggers can be important to the neonate’s survival outside the womb. ”, the vaginal birth prepares the child to the advert situations and help them to deal with all the new things they will go through outside that dark and warm place, without getting too stressed and collapsing. However, the fetus is well equipped to withstand stress, even early in gestation. The stress they feel helps to clear the lungs, changes their physiological characteristic to promote normal breathing. The major part of the women who do not want to deliver the baby through the vaginal canal have psychological reasons, leading to bad previous labour experiences, low self-esteem, not believing in themselves, and many other reasons.