Hw #39: Insights from book Part 2

Birth by Tina Cassidy is able to touch up upon the affects of a cesarean section. Cassidy is able to provide us with history of the surgical procedure. “The business of being born” does not display much about the affects and history of this frequent procedure.

Throughout the second 100 pages of the book “Birth” by Tina Cassidy she is able to describe the surgical method of a C- Section and the tools obstetrician and doctors use to perform the surgery of giving birth. Cassidy also explains the different ways females give birth and how the process has been altered over time. Cassidy is able to give statistics, history, and cesarean section stories to further explain this process. I believe that by further explaining this process the reader is able to notice the transformation of the operation throughout history. This information is very significant to our society because we will have the knowledge of the pro’s and con’s but most importantly the risk’s of a cesarean section.

5 interesting aspects:

1) Poor countries still use symphyseotomy today where more then a third of mothers and half of the amount of infants who are involved die.(106)

-“Birth rates in developed countries began to drop because of religious beliefs.”(119)

-C sections are more common for wealthy women because they want to keep figure but more frequently because they want to “plan” there birth date.(127)

-Instead of woman giving birth naturally, throughout history there have been more forceps used to deliver these babies.(168)

-All through history woman constantly would give birth in water and these births happened to be one of the safer ways to perform a pregnancy.(183)

Tina Casdiy’s claim was that C-sections happen to be more of a risk then vaginal birth. C-sections were now becoming more common not because woman had medical conditions but because woman wanted to plan their birth dates and skip the “hard work”. According to Wendy leonard; author of “C sections more common, less healthy for babies” Cassidy’s argument was valid and defensible. “While cesarean sections may be more convenient, as far as scheduling the birth of a baby and avoiding the last few uncomfortable weeks of a pregnancy, Branch said babies delivered before 39 weeks — the ideal gestational period — are also "more likely to have medical complications."(http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705364691/C-sections-more-common-less-healthy-for-baby.html)

This helps show that woman are taking away the natural process of their pregnancy. They are doing it for reason such as “convenience” for them but what can lie ahead of them could be an unhealthy baby.