We often find that the medical community is not doing a really appropriate, effective job in giving moms informed consent, allowing them to appreciate that when you compare the risk of C-section versus the risk of allowing labor and delivery to continue, when there are signs that the baby.
Is not getting enough oxygen is far more serious than doing the C-section.
I have no issue with a mom saying if I have a choice, I’d like to deliver vaginally, but having a preference or wanting to deliver vaginally, believing that you have a low risk pregnancy is Much different scenario than a pregnancy in which the pregnancy is now high risk, and I have never met or heard any mother ever refuse to consent to an emergency cesarean section where the medical team has been completely honest.
With Ma and the medical team has accurately explained the circumstances that the baby may not be getting enough oxygen.
The baby may no longer be happy in this environment.
So this whole idea that there are risks of having C-sections has to be evaluated within the context of what is going on clinically with an individual pregnancy.
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