C-Sections And The Fear Of Pain

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | yikes

Being a man, I can only comment in an off-hand way about this article in The Guardian: ‘Fear of pain’ causes big rise in caesareans.

I honestly can’t say that I would opt to go through the pain of birth rather than a ‘relatively painless’ caesarean. Sure, it’s the natural way, but we stopped walking everywhere and eating raw meat a long time ago, didn’t we? Says the deputy general-secretary of the Royal College of Midwives:

‘Women are trying to remove the symptoms of pregnancy as much as they can. They are seeking to control everything. Choosing to have a caesarean gives you an element of control.’

While acknowledging that labour is ‘unbelievably painful’, Silverton pointed out that the pain is temporary, unlike back pain, gallstones or kidney stones. She also claimed that women under 40 were more likely to have an ‘epidural in a way that their predecessors wouldn’t’.

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