Educate Yourselves!

If you do not want to give birth the "granola way" make sure you educate yourself completely in the form you would like to give birth in.

(the following information is taken as an excerpt from Cesareans on Demand written by Mayri Sagady Leslie, CNM, MSN from the magazine Every Baby Magazine page 102)

Risks that exist for all cesareans, including elective:

• longer hospitalization than for vaginal births
• more pain than with vaginal birth
• higher risk of the baby developing asthma
• unexplained stillbirth in subsequent pregnancies
• problems with getting pregnant again and possibly an increased risk of miscarriage