Surgery is frightening, lonely and painful. Medications and anesthetics can be dangerous to both mother and baby.
For almost all women, emergencies excluded, vaginal birth is much safer for both mother and baby.
No mother wants to be separated from her baby. No baby wants to be taken from his/her mother.
The experience of actively delivering a baby is exciting and empowering.
Vaginal birth is the essence of femininity to most women. It biologically and physically links all women. It is also an expression of a woman's sexuality.
No one likes feeling victimized and out of control.
Being cut open, for anything, may leave one feeling violated and disturbed.
When a mother is able to immediately step in and nurture her infant and care for herself, her self-esteem is high. This is often not so after surgical birth, due to the limitations after major abdominal surgery. Strength and energy return quickly after vaginal birth.
Nursing gets a good solid start directly after vaginal birth. Even new mothers often feel more confident in nursing if they have had a vaginal delivery. Surgery often interrupts bonding and nursing with the newborn.
Childbirth is a JOY to be cherished probably only a few times in a woman's life.
Pregnancy affords women nine long months of expectation. Surgery is an emotional letdown to a woman who is looking forward to a normal birth.
Women often feel like their bodies have let them down. Emergencies happen; we must all face the uncertainty of life at some point, but it does not diminish the flood of feelings even knowing this.
There is always risk in surgery, both for mother and baby.
Women feel a connection to other women after having a vaginal birth experience. The feeling is heightened after a VBAC.
Mothers feel connected to their husbands or partners as they work together to birth their child. This is often interrupted in a surgical birth.
Women have a right to birth their children, without the need of any reasons!
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