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To: DScottD who wrote (20736)	4/22/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am actually a proponent of Cesarean sections. While they used to be done much too frequently, it is my opinion that since the eighties they are sometimes not done quickly enough. I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who suffered through long labors--thirty-five hours or more--only to still have them. Especially with older mothers, which was the trend during these times, it is an awful ordeal to go through--the sheer excruciation of labor, often made worse in these specific cases by pitocin, which causes really violent and painful contractions, and then surgery on top of everything. In my labor classes having natural childbirth was really stressed. I think a lot of women feel like failures if they cannot do this. However, what really makes a mother is the twenty or so years she has rearing her child with a lot of love, not what happened during the birth.