Celebrity C-Sections

[Feralpeg]

I had a C-Section with DD. It was medically necessary. I certainly didn't want to have my stomach cut open!

I really think we need to give these people a break. Just because they are celebrities doesn't mean with have to judge everything they do.

 

[Beth76]

I hope this isn't too judgemental against health care in other countries, but if you were giving birth for the first time and your baby was breech and you were a multi-millionaire, would you chose to have your surgery in some clinic in Namibia for God's Sake? Unless of course, she flew in her OB from Cedars-Sinai in L.A. and he brought his own sterile surgical supplies.

Well she did fly in her own doctor. I don't know about sterile supplies though. I've been a fan of Angelina's since she became a mother and I too thought this was a bit flakey. But, I just figure that she's been around this whole world and has seen a lot of things. I'm sure she knows when a place is safe. I guess with her other two children being from different countries she wanted her new daughter to have some sort of tie to a country other than the US.

 

[ChristmasElf]

I hope this isn't too judgemental against health care in other countries, but if you were giving birth for the first time and your baby was breech and you were a multi-millionaire, would you chose to have your surgery in some clinic in Namibia for God's Sake? Unless of course, she flew in her OB from Cedars-Sinai in L.A. and he brought his own sterile surgical supplies.

It was reported that her Los Angeles Dr was flown in to deliver the Jolie baby.
I still think I wouldn't want to be having surgery in the middle of nowhere in a clinic that may not be able to handle a true emergency.
I have had more than my share of c sections (unfortunately) and never was I able to convince the Dr to take away any "extra" that he came across in the mid section area.
Something about it being too much of a "shock" to the system and more than the body could handle safely. The only advantage was they could suction up more of the blood and liquids that the uterus held and that helped lessen the bleeding afterwards.

 

[VSL]

I hope to give both totally naturally when I decide to have children. However, I am pretty certain that I'd go for a c-section if the baby was breeched.

Not only that, but from the perspective of someone who has yet to give birth, I can really understand the fear about the pain of the delivery (fear of the known I guess). And, in addition, being celebrities they do have lots of other things to consider (as some posters have already said).

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

Both of my boys were c-sections and both were a breeze to recover from. My first was following three days in the hospital... unproductive contractions.... horses dose of pitosin..... breaking my water and nothing happened. Second was scheduled and I was in and out of the hospital in just over 24 hours.

I was doing stairs the day after delivery and coaching softball the second day.

I think people need to back off the celebs. If they can afford it and find a doctor that will do it then more power to them. What they do certainly does not affect me!

 

[MareQ]

Babies can change position well until the 3rd trimester before settling down.

My 2 year old did this my whole 9th month - he'd be breech - we'd schedule a version - I'd do all the at home "remedies" to turn him - we'd go in for the version and he'd be head down - next week at check-up - BREECH again - again schedule a version, home remedies and head down again. After the 3 rd round of this at my 39th week I told them to induce me right then and there because there was no way I was going to have a c-section after having 2 ******ls - lol!

By the way - HAD he been in a Frank Breech position they were going to leave me be and let me delivery breech ******lly but his feet and cord were always under him when he was breech....

Was a nice a long 31 hours labor too - my longest of the three- he was determined to make me know right up front who the boss really was - LMAO!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Oops--I should have said well INTO the 3rd trimester. But you caught my drift. LOL!

 

[Christine]

I think people need to back off the celebs. If they can afford it and find a doctor that will do it then more power to them. What they do certainly does not affect me!

I'm not picking on them or judging them. It just seemed like they were all doing it and I couldn't understand why.

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

I'm not picking on them or judging them. It just seemed like they were all doing it and I couldn't understand why.

I understand what you are saying!

I am not sure I would have chosen a c-section before I had one.... but if I would have had more than two kids they all would have been c-section because I had such an easy time with the first two. We have friends, however, that spent a week in the hospital and she could barely walk when she was discharged.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

I do remember reading something about all the equipment, supplies, and medical personnel that were flown over to Nambia to prepare for the birth. It was something about how most of the equipment was to be donated to the clinic afterwards.

As far as being more "dangerous" - well for whatever reasons I've always heard that the United STates has a very high infant mortality birth rate compared to most countries.

That probably has something to do with the number of high risk pregnancies that are created through various methods of assisted fertilization and prevented miscarriages....but still... Just because it is the United States doesn't mean that it is all that superior.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I think for Africa--we associate the 3rd world births (ever see that special world birthday or whatever it was on discovery? Very sad how the limited the african hospitals they showed were. Women only present at hospital when there is a complication. ).

Supposedly that hospital for all intents and purposes was a decent enough one to meet AJ's needs for someone whose pregnancy was not high risk. She didn't give birth in a clinical hut in the middle of the sahara.

From what I have read it really seemed that they had their bases covered and whatever happened abroad could have easily happened at home with the same result and vice versa.

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

I think it has to do with privacy issues. I"m sure someone like Britney wouldn't want to be out at a "function" and have her water break. The pictures would be all over tv the next day.

 

[Christine]

I think it has to do with privacy issues. I"m sure someone like Britney wouldn't want to be out at a "function" and have her water break. The pictures would be all over tv the next day.

Then why not induce?

 

[Christine]

I think it has to do with privacy issues. I"m sure someone like Britney wouldn't want to be out at a "function" and have her water break. The pictures would be all over tv the next day.

Oh, and for Britney, I did read that she chose a C-section because she knew that she could not stand the pain of childbirth.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Oh, and for Britney, I did read that she chose a C-section because she knew that she could not stand the pain of childbirth.

I had a friend that when she got induced she got her epidural right away. So I don't understand this reasoning.

 

[Christine]

I had a friend that when she got induced she got her epidural right away. So I don't understand this reasoning.

That was pretty much me.. I was induced for my second child. I had *heard* that being induced causes hard contractions to start suddenly. When I went into the hospital to be induced, I was at 4 cm. They started the Pitocin drip and within 30 minutes I had the hardest contractions ever. I didn't think I was going to die or anything, but they were definitely harder than I had with my first delivery. They were so hard that I felt I was going to vomit. They immediately brought in the anesthesiologist and I got the epidural within about 45 minutes of the Pitocin.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My friend got hooked up to here epi pretty much with the pitocin. All hospitals are different. Some want you to be "far enough along" before they will give you any. Others don't really care. My friends hospital didn't.

You don't know what your body will be able to handle and many a woman have had the full up drugged birth just fine. I was able to push paralyzed even (too high epi that day--I couldn't wiggle a toe for 10 hours after the fact. L&D was mad at the anestesiologist that day b/c they had several women in that predicament and we couldn't be moved to the new mommy ward and they had new patients coming in with nowhere to go!).

 

[Divamomto3]

BTW, I got a chuckle out of a previous poster. Nambia might not be at the forefront of technology, but I think they've figured out how sterilze surgical instruments in the last hundred years!

You'd be shocked as to how many hospitals in the U.S. can't even figure out how to properly sterilze things.

 

[of the seas]

I've heard that they get a 2fer.... C-section & Tummy Tuck all in one...

You know that has to be the truth!!! Their stomaches are too flat perfect after a baby not to!!

 

[pixiemomma]

You know that has to be the truth!!! Their stomaches are too flat perfect after a baby not to!!

Not true. I didn't get much of a belly to begin with during my first two pregnancies (I don't really have one now either) and I had good size babies, early, and a flat stomach when I was taken up to my post-partum room. Youth, exercise and eating correctly go a long way.