Healing the violent core of hospital birth practices would alleviate these difficulties. The benefits of a normal vaginal delivery are too numerous and profound to mention here, but a few- peace and satisfaction, easier breastfeeding, speedy recovery, confidence in one's ability to give birth, immediate motherbaby bonding, sensual immersion in the birth experience, actually giving birth. Being perpetually hereafter considered 'high risk'. Needless cesarean section is a grotesque and incomprehensible assault on the sanctity of women's bodies and souls. Women's bodies must not be arbitrarily sliced in childbirth.
Babies sometimes die, yes, but are more likely to when being birthed in drugged, manipulated danger.
True informed consent must never, never be taken lightly. Long term morbidity-including formation of adhesions, intestinal obstruction, bladder injury, and uterine rupture is often underestimated during subsequent pregnancy. Feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and failure in not completing a natural process may affect bonding between mother and infant, particularly if the operation was conducted under general anaesthetic. If we do not tackle these tricky ethical questions ourselves, it is likely that our legal brethren will do it for us. As a society, so many of us feel that if something is done by a doctor, then needed it must be.