admittedly i haven’t yet been in a situation where it’s more than a hypothetical question, but am i the only woman who find the idea of having major abdominal surgery far more terrifying than the idea of giving birth as women have been doing, mostly successfully, for all of time? i’m glad dying in childbirth isn’t a common occurence any longer and that we have plenty of choices for medical assistance. i wonder how informed some of the women who elect to have caesarian sections are:

one of the things that is often said is that if you have a vaginal birth you have the pain before the baby, and if you have surgery you have the pain afterwards.