{"id":445,"date":"2004-04-23T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/too_posh_to_push\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T20:30:02","slug":"too_posh_to_push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/too_posh_to_push\/","title":{"rendered":"“Too Posh To Push”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time Magazine was reporting on C-sections in the April 19, 2004 issue. They titled the article “Too Posh To Push”<\/a> because it seems that wealthy women are choosing Caesarean sections over natural birth.
\nIn Brazil, among the wealthy, the joke is that the only way you are likely to have a natural birth is if your doctor is stuck in traffic. A whopping 90% <\/b>of the wealthy women in Brazil opt for a C-section!
\nThe World Health Organization recommends that 15% of the births worldwide, and less than 9.5% of the births in the wealthy, Westernized nations should be Caesarean deliveries. In England, 22% of the babies are born by C-section, and in Italy the rate has jumped to 33%.
\nIn the U.S. when they began keeping statistics in 1975, the rate of C-sections was 10.4%. Since then fully one quarter of the births are by C-section. Of the Caesareans performed last year, 22% were by patient choice.
\nWhy? Convenience. Women can schedule when they deliver. Doctors don’t have to miss their golf days. Some women choose them to avoid labor pain, but I suspect they are likely to have more pain recouperating from a C-section.
\nIn Western medicine, C-sections have become a safe surgery, or malpractice would have kept this rate from rising, but there are still risks. Some doctors follow the “Do no Harm” rule and only perform a Caesarean when it’s medically necessary, but you can bet that women like Kate Hudson and Elizabeth Hurley, and Madonna, and Kelly Ripa won’t be going to them.
\nWhat absolutely astounds me is that these women have opted to wear a scar for life rather than be inconvenienced. Even more, I can’t believe that they choose to risk their child’s life with an unnecessary procedure.
\nPersonally, I don’t think that satisfying one’s personal whim at the risk of your children’s health is an acceptable choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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