HOW TO MOVE PAST A BAD BIRTH
IN TODAY’S WORLD, we expect to have choices, and that includes choosing how we want to give birth. On one side of the “ideal birth” debate, women advocate for the rights of women to demand planned elective caesars. The other side equally passionately demands births free of medical interventions as the ideal. Wherever your preferences lie, there’s no question: birth has become political.
Your ancestors gave birth vaginally regardless of how anxious, fearful or squeamish that made them. Alternatively, they regularly died in childbirth of complications we now consider minor. The first caesarean section performed on a live woman was, depending on your sources, in 1500 or in 1610, but even by the late 1800s this operation was dangerous, with
