-=> Quoting Danny Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 02-13-07  11:38 <=-

 DC>> Women who have had a cesarean in the past are more likely to request 
 DC>> on on future deliveries. 
 NB>> Only if they had requested it for the previous ones.  Anyone I've
 NB>> known that ended up having one unexpectedly has planned to have
 NB>> subsequent births naturally, unless there is some on-going reason to
 NB>> expect that they wouldn't be able to go that route.

 DC> But, there's still the problem that a woman who has had a cesarian 
 DC> may not be able to have future natural births.  

Less and less likely nowadays.  There's always also the possibility that
after a vaginal delivery there might be complications that would
preclude another one...  Always some possibilities of problems, but
generally not worth worrying about, unless there are specific risk
factors in one's own case.  

 DC> In fact, those that have a cesarean birth are less likely to 
 DC> even have another pregnancy.  

That sounds like it comes from raw statistics again.  Part of what goes
into that is that a number of caesarean births are done because the
mother is having her umpteenth child, and this one is bigger than the
last with a deteriorating uterus to boot, so the mother is advised to
call it quits.  Another part is that there just might not BE another
pregnancy in the wings for that mother, of whatever age, for whatever
reason, possibly related to the previous births and possibly not at all
related.

ttyl          neb

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