My children's lungs would have been healthier. Not to mention the bonding between us. They were whisked away with a physician before I had a chance to touch them. I was talked into a c-section with my first birth. No one told me how hard the recovery would be.
Women experience all sorts of physical, emotional and spiritual problems after c-sections.
To voluntarily sign up for surgical birth is unimaginable to me. But if people really knew what the surgery and recovery really entail, this would seem like an absurd question. All you are doing is removing the discomfort of labor and putting yourself in pain when you need to be breastfeeding comfortably, getting around and bonding with the baby. This really scares me. I think if women start doing this, it will make OBs even MORE cesarean-happy than they already are.