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Which birth is harder?

Even though labor and vaginal birth can be hard work, they are generally easier on a woman's body than a cesarean. Recovery after vaginal birth is usually shorter and less painful than after a C-section, and allows the woman to spend more time with her baby.
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Which baby delivery is more painful?

Recovery times following C-sections are also typically longer than those following natural birth. Ultimately, a natural birth may be more painful than a cesarean section. However, the pain after your cesarean section combined with the heightened risks to you and your baby may outweigh the initial pain of childbirth.
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Which birth delivery is best?

What type of delivery is best? A vaginal delivery is the safest and most common type of childbirth. Vaginal deliveries account for about 68% of all births in the United States. Most medical organizations and obstetricians recommend a vaginal delivery unless there is a medical reason for a C-section.
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Is C-section painful or normal delivery?

You won't feel any pain during the C-section, although you may feel sensations like pulling and pressure. Most women are awake and simply numbed from the waist down using regional anesthesia (an epidural and/or a spinal block) during a C-section. That way, they are awake to see and hear their baby being born.
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What type of birth is best for baby?

For most women, a vaginal birth is safer and healthier. Vaginal birth cuts the risk for many complications. With a vaginal birth, a woman has the following: A lower risk of needing a blood transfusion.
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Which birth is the easiest?

Even though labor and vaginal birth can be hard work, they are generally easier on a woman's body than a cesarean. Recovery after vaginal birth is usually shorter and less painful than after a C-section, and allows the woman to spend more time with her baby.
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What type of birth is safest?

With a skilled healthcare provider and nursing staff, vaginal delivery is the safest delivery method available for mothers and babies. Some of the biggest benefits of vaginal deliveries are as follows: Shorter hospital stay. Quicker recovery for the mom and baby.
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Why do doctors prefer C-sections?

Doctors would have several reasons to prefer C-sections to natural childbirth in marginal cases: more income, more convenience in planning and scheduling, and fear of malpractice lawsuits.
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Why do I touch myself during labor?

"Clitoral stimulation worked an absolute TREAT," she wrote. "It shifted my focus to my vagina, to the energy brewing within me. It made me feel connected, and made me feel like I had some control over what I was feeling... It was my glorious instinctual pain-relief system coming to life!
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Can you get a flat stomach after C-section?

However, due to the way C-section scars are caused, it might not be possible to totally remove a pouch without some kind of plastic surgery (such as a tummy tuck). Depending on the way your scar has healed, your scar might have found itself stuck to your muscles and could be causing overhanging tissue above.
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How can I deliver a baby without pain?

Relaxation strategies and medicine-free ways to handle pain during labor include:
  1. rhythmic or deep breathing.
  2. hypnosis.
  3. yoga.
  4. meditation.
  5. walking.
  6. massage or counterpressure.
  7. applying cold or heat to painful areas.
  8. using a birthing/exercise ball.
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Is it possible to give birth without pain?

Everyone's birth experience will be unique. So when people refer to “natural childbirth”, they're often referring specifically to giving birth with the use of little-to-no pain medication. Natural birth can also mean taking a wellness-based approach to the childbirth process.
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Can you feel baby coming out with an epidural?

And you'll still be able to feel your baby moving through the birth canal and coming out. Epidural medication is delivered through a catheter – a very thin, flexible, plastic, hollow tube – that's inserted into the epidural space just outside the membrane that surrounds your spinal cord and spinal fluid.
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Does C-section keep you tight?

After a C-section, we often see women complaining of tightness in the pelvic floor felt when trying to have sex or put a tampon in. This can be a result of the scar tissue from above pulling on these muscles below creating traction.
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How long should you push for first baby?

Pushing your baby out

You may not feel the urge to push immediately. If you have had an epidural, you may not feel an urge to push at all. If you're having your 1st baby, this pushing stage should last no longer than 3 hours. If you've had a baby before, it should take no more than 2 hours.
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Why do hospitals push for C-sections?

In some situations, a C-section is not only preferable but mandatory—situations involving conditions like placenta previa, in which going into labor would precipitate life-threatening hemorrhaging, or cord prolapse, which can cause the death of a baby if a C-section is not performed in a manner of minutes.
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How many cesareans can a woman have?

There's really no set rule when it comes to the number of C-sections you can have. "I have performed a woman's sixth C-section with virtually no complications or difficulties, and I have performed second cesarean sections with many adhesions and potential complications," says Jason S. James, MD, an OB-GYN in Miami.
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Do hospitals get more money for C-sections?

CS rates vary considerably across regions and hospitals within countries, and a closer look at this variation may help to identify factors that contribute to higher than necessary rates. CS receive higher reimbursement than normal vaginal births in most healthcare systems.
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What they don't tell you about C-section?

1. Be sure to monitor yourself for infections and complications. C-sections are major surgeries, which means they can come with complications. To that end, it's good to know the difference between normal C-section recovery and signs of health issues that need treatment.
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Is childbirth the worst pain in the world?

And almost every pain you can imagine is compared to the pain of childbirth. However, there are some things that women who have experienced both say hurt more than giving birth. Everyone experiences pain differently, so what might be more painful for one person may not be for another.
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How many stitches are in a C-section?

The uterus is closed by 2 sutures starting from either end of the wound. a The first suture stitch is placed slightly medially from the anatomical corner of the wound. The same suture thread is used to make 2–4 more continuous sutures and the ends of the suture thread are knotted.
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What is the personality of a C-section baby?

'Caesarean babies as they grow up tend to be both dependent and impatient. They don't know the rhythm of getting to know someone and sustaining a relationship. 'They have a feeling of not really being attached to any person or idea.
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Has anyone had 5 C-sections?

Of the 244 patients in MRCS group, 217 patients had four previous CSs, 26 had five and 1 had seven previous CSs. Of the 1074 patients in control group, 387 had two previous CS and 687 had three previous CSs.
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Which pregnancy is the riskiest?

What's a "High-Risk" Pregnancy?
  • is age 17 or younger.
  • is age 35 or older.
  • was underweight or overweight before becoming pregnant.
  • is pregnant with twins, triplets, or other multiples.
  • has high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, or another health problem.
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