Guest guest Posted September 19, 2001 Report Share Posted September 19, 2001 According to Junior magazine the C/S rates for the Uk are 20%, USA 40% and Brazil has a rate of 75%!!! http://www.foxstitch.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2001 Report Share Posted September 20, 2001 > According to Junior magazine the C/S rates for the Uk are 20%, USA 40% > and Brazil has a rate of 75%!!! I read that! It's crazy, isn' it. It didn't sound too bad for the Uk as a whole, if the 'expected' rate is 10-15%. Karina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2001 Report Share Posted September 20, 2001 Also allegedly (according to a Brazilian woman who was in my antenatal class - and whom I haven’t seen since and might have had a c-section since she had pre-eclampsia), the Brazilian middle classes and above choose to have caesarians and book well in advance, since being able to buy yourself an ‘easy’ birth is a sign that you’ve made it and don’t have to grunt and push like the lower-class women. Phyllis >Allegedly Brazil has papal dispensation for women to be >sterilised >after having 3 C/S's. > > According to Junior magazine the C/S rates for the Uk are 20%, USA 40% Ø and Brazil has a rate of 75%!!! __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2001 Report Share Posted September 20, 2001 > the Brazilian middle classes and above choose to have > caesarians and book well in advance, since being able to > buy yourself an `easy' birth is a sign that you've made it > and don't have to grunt and push like the lower-class > women. Isn't that the same trend that happened over here too some decades ago? Only that there has been a backlash since then, with the middle classes going back to the 'natural' earth mother approach (yoga, in touch with your body, breastfeeding, etc)? Karina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2001 Report Share Posted September 20, 2001 > > Isn't that the same trend that happened over here too some decades > ago? Only that there has been a backlash since then, with the middle > classes going back to the 'natural' earth mother approach (yoga, in > touch with your body, breastfeeding, etc)? > > Karina The c/s rate has been rising steadily, and the RCM/RCOG/NCT are worried enough about it to have had 2 conferences and a national audit. IIRCthe stats from a speaker at one of the confs stated about 2% of units had rates over 30% a couple of years ago. If you have a c/s for your first birth - you are v much more likely to have c/s for your subsequent births. Practice in a hospital in Dublin showed that even with interventionist approach - one -to-one care for women in labour meant that the c/s rate was kept low.This is what women don`t seem to get these days, and therefore -they may end up ironically with 10 -to-1 care in the op theatre :-((((( c/s s are expensive, not only in money/resource terms but also for p/n health and b/f. A small reduction in the c/s rate coudl pay for hundreds more midwives. Barbara .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2001 Report Share Posted September 20, 2001 > > the Brazilian middle classes and above choose to have > > caesarians and book well in advance, since being able to > > buy yourself an `easy' birth is a sign that you've made it > > and don't have to grunt and push like the lower-class > > women. > I read many years ago that in Brazil there was actually a sort of advertising campaign advocating Caesareans using the phrase " keep your vagina honeymoon fresh - have a Caesarean " !!! Akiko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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