The possibilities of modern medicine are so wide that when deciding on the delivery methods, doctors and the woman herself can choose the most suitable option, which will save the health and life of both the mother and her child. Thanks to the achievements of modern medicine, the negative effects of Caesarean section are minimized, which is confirmed by the fact that during subsequent pregnancies it will not be necessary to use Caesarean section for delivery, but independent births are possible. That is why a woman should be interested in the question - how to recover after a cesarean section, and not the question - whether the operation is necessary at all.
Caesarean section - “fashion operation” or a necessity
Nevertheless, it is impossible to deny the fact that the number of such operations is increasing every year. This is not due to the fact that doctors are trying to earn some additional money for themselves (after all, cesarean section is usually paid more generously by grateful patients than natural childbirth), most likely the general tendency to worsening health status and even the existing fashion are to blame.
Every year, more and more expectant mothers come to obstetrician-gynecologists who have quite serious deviations in their state of health before pregnancy, and in some women the need to perform an operation occurs while the baby is waiting. In fact, thoughtful and balanced decision-making will reduce the consequences of caesarean section to the minimum, and the woman’s body will be able to quickly recover. Then the young mother will be able to devote herself to taking care of the baby.
Caesarean section - when the operation is justified
In the popular literature, you can find many articles in which it is said that operative delivery does not allow you to completely feel like a mother. This is due to the fact that with surgical delivery there is no normal course of the birth act, and the woman does not experience all the "charms" of the process. In fact, all these statements, as well as those reporting that the consequences of a cesarean section will cause the woman’s body to recover for a long time, and the child may have deviations in the future, are mostly contrived.
In modern conditions, cesarean section is performed only when there is objective evidence for this: deviations in a woman’s state of health , in which a birth certificate is much more dangerous than the consequences of a short operation. For example, with pathology of the cardiovascular system and kidneys, endocrine diseases, and diseases of vision. Surgical delivery is also necessary if there are structural features of the skeleton of the expectant mother — an anatomical or clinical narrow pelvis (in the latter case, the woman’s pelvis sizes are normal, but for some reason the baby’s sizes are larger, that is, a large fetus).
In some cases, the need to perform the operation may also arise according to indications from the side of the child - if the fetus is in the wrong position in the uterus, features of the placenta, anomalies in the umbilical cord. It must be remembered that with head presentation, the umbilical cord loop on the child’s neck is not an indication for cesarean section, while with pelvic presentation, this complication may be one of the reasons for the intervention.
Complications after surgery - how to avoid them
Complications after cesarean section with the correct implementation of medical appointments arise no more often than after a natural birth. The baby’s condition often turns out to be better than one would expect, because the birth process itself, which is quite severe stress, is excluded. But you need to remember that the consequences of a caesarean section, like any abdominal surgery, largely depend on the state of health of the woman before pregnancy and childbirth. If the decision on operative delivery was made on time, then the likelihood of complications is reduced.