Today I presented my research on the ethics of maternal elective cesarean deliveries to some other theology students. I enjoy exchanging knowledge with other students (part of the reason I love school and hated distance learning classes). My favorite part came outside the official presentation and Q&A.
One writer worried that as the number of c-sections rises women will stop exchanging stories of normal childbirth and only have surgical stories to tell, which will increase feelings of incompetence surrounding birth. Tonight, people told birth stories. Hard births, easy births, regular births, surgical births, heroic births. ("The sonogram missed a baby! She gave birth -- after a past c-section -- to surprise twins, breach, by the side of the road!") We still have stories. Beautiful, diverse, empowering stories that women share -- and, tonight, men too.
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