Once upon a time, women hoped and prayed for a natural labor and delivery. These days, the rising rate of women going under the knife to deliver is alarming, although not worrying to most physicians.
Why? This is because the cesarean section is ‘elective’ or chosen by the mother as her way of wanting to give birth. Yes, this may seem odd to most of us, but it is true.
The myth that surrounds the ‘elective’ surgery is that women are choosing it out of convenience while in reality, it is more so a procedure that is being pushed upon them by their OB/GYN.
The time you deliver is planned down to the minute, you know how long (more or less) recovery will be, and you don’t go through such a long labor.
On the downside, a lot less women will end up breastfeeding their newborns because of the pain associated with the surgery, as well as the increased risk of developing infection postpartum.
Whether you need to have a cesarean section, elective or medical reasons aside, we have found a postpartum kit that will help soothe your postpartum aches and ease you into motherhood.
It is called the C-section Healing Kit by EarthMammaAngelBaby. The kit includes:
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C-Mama Healing Salve™ 30 ml (1 oz)
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Monthly Comfort Tea, 4 Tea Bags
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Happy Mama Spray 30 ml (1 oz)
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C-Section Recovery CD
The best part about it? At $45.95 a percentage of proceeds are donated to the International Cesarean Awareness Network, which is a non-profit organization working to improve maternal-child health and prevent unnecessary cesareans through education and support for cesarean recovery and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).
Yoanna Vadim CD, CBE is a certified birthing assistant and child birth educator. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband and son. Her column runs every Tuesday.
