C/s terminology wasThe good birth guide

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Somewhere I read the definitions Emergency (for in medical urgency)

Planned (for medical reasons, not necessarily of parents choice -I

guess that could be during or prior to labour) and Elective (parents

choice no medical reason)

Its not perfect but better than other definitions I have heard!

Angi

>Hear, hear to that, ! Although my second section was decided

on

>long before I would ever have gone into labour it is emphatically

*not* how

>I would have chosen to give birth, and I only consented to it because

I was

>told by people I trusted that labour would be dangerous to the baby.

I

>don't regret the section, it hasn't scarred me in any way other than

>physically, but the term 'elective' gives it my whole-hearted, joyful

>consent, whereas in reality it had my heavy-hearted, resigned

consent.

>> I think we could

>> do to amend terminology too - elective and emergency don't always

>> describe either situation.