{"id":222,"date":"2003-03-06T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T22:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=222"},"modified":"2003-03-06T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2003-03-06T22:39:24","slug":"hms-blog-on-ele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/03\/hms-blog-on-ele\/","title":{"rendered":"HMS Blog on elective primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>HMS Blog on elective primary C-sections<\/b><br \/>\n<i>(sorry about the duplicate. I didn&#8217;t see that Pansy had already blogged on this article.)<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exceptionalmarriages.com\/weblog\/BlogDetail.asp?ID=4488\">Kevin Miller starts the discussion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exceptionalmarriages.com\/weblog\/BlogDetail.asp?ID=4502\">Greg Popcak comments.<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Elective<\/b> primary C-sections.  Mothers having their first baby who choose to have a scheduled C-section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/healthscience\/20030306csectionheap1.asp\">More women are scheduling Caesarean sections for the delivery of a first child, a trend that doctors writing in today&#8217;s New England Journal of Medicine say is ethically defensible&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8230;for a variety of reasons, ranging from the convenience of scheduling the delivery to the perception that C-sections reduce the risk of incontinence, more patients are asking about the option, according to doctors in Pittsburgh and across the country.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is nuts.  Nuts that these mothers are trying to control their children down to choosing their birthdays, nuts that their doctors aren&#8217;t trying to reassure them that having a vaginal birth does not condemn you to incontinence (and wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if women&#8217;s reproductive health addressed this more?  and publicized the recent advances that have been made in treating this?)<br \/>\nI wonder how much the lack of family and social support plays into this?  In a new-baby haze I once fantasized about having an elective C-section if I were ever pregnant again, so I could deliver while my mother was in town to help me&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMS Blog on elective primary C-sections (sorry about the duplicate. I didn&#8217;t see that Pansy had already blogged on this article.) Kevin Miller starts the discussion and Greg Popcak comments. Elective primary C-sections. Mothers having their first baby who choose to have a scheduled C-section: More women are scheduling Caesarean sections for the delivery of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/03\/hms-blog-on-ele\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HMS Blog on elective primary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}