Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 43: My beliefs about Cesarean Section (CS)
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As a husband, when your wife is in delivery room and the doctor comes out and say the baby is bridge and the only way to deliver your wife safely is through cesarean section, at that point, you will throw away whatever believes you hold to because your top priority is safety of your wife and kid.
So to an extent, believes can be limited, when it comes to life and death situations. But you will be surprised when you find out that there are some religious fanatics who still hold strong to their beliefs at the expense of their life. I know you will be interested to hear of such story but before diving into that, pardon me to invite @hannybanny @dar22 and @nsijoro to join us as well.
How do you explain CS to a lay man understanding? |
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We have always known that women deliver their kids through their vagina and that has been the natural way of life. But there are so many times, that we hear of complications during childbirth. Is either there vagina is too small, the baby is breech or multiple pregnancy.
In such situations, when she’s to weak to push the baby, the tummy and uterus is been torn open with their surgical blade, so that they can remove the baby safely and also save the life of the mother. This process is called cesarean section.
Do you think CS should be a choice /right or as situation demands? |
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Let’s imagine, you’re a doctor and you have a patient in labor and has been struggling with delivery for hours and the baby isn’t forthcoming. As a doctor, you know the only way to safe the both of them is through a cesarean section and you took the initiative of getting on with the operation without consulting her family members about the decision you took.
No matter the good intentions you had in mind, if anything happens to either the baby or the mother during such delicate operation, the doctor will go in for it because no one will want to listen to the doctor. So, is preferable, you give that “choice or right” of cesarean section to the patient family members. That way, the doctor is free from any risk that happens.
Is there any history or stories about the belief of women who gives birth through CS in your country/Community? Share with us |
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Speaking about beliefs, I don’t think there is any that I know of in Nigeria. CS is one operation that has been saving a lot of mothers. Even my mum had our last child through Cesarean section. In fact, some people opt for Cesarean section because of the fears of going through pains of labor.
As much as CS is popular in the medical field, not everyone love the idea as a result of their strong belief. A lady I know got married to a pastor and got pregnant. Due to complications, the wife had to deliver through CS unfortunately she was having low blood level and she needed a blood transfusion before carrying out the surgery.
Her religious beliefs don’t permit “blood transfusions”. They see it as a sin. The husband who’s a leader in his religion didn’t permit any blood transfusions on his wife and that’s how he loosed his wife and his baby.
Sometimes, I wonder how he lives with himself after the incident and if he doesn’t have nightmares about the whole episode.
What is your advice to that person who is refusing this process because of what people will say? |
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God has given us the choice to pick between life and death. He further advised us to pick life, so that we may live. So, when you get to a point, when the only option to save your life is through cesarean section, I don’t think you will care at that moment what people will say.
Remember, you only live once (YOLO). You’re not a cat with 9 lives. God gave us brains to think, be creative, to invent etc. That same brain is what doctors use to perform CS, separate conjoined twins and many other medical breakthroughs. If God hates such things, he won’t give us the knowledge.
So, my best advice is that you think of yourself and the baby safety first and forget about what people will say and also seek support from family members or friends that have same beliefs with you. The reason I emphasize on this “same belief” is that, in my story, the pregnant lady that died, her family members couldn’t do anything about it or even arrest the husband for what he did because they all have the same religious beliefs.
Will you support your sister,wife to Choose CS in case of any emergency during childbirth? Or you allow her to wait until the due time |
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I will definitely support them to do cesarean section if every other alternative has failed. The reason I said other alternative is because the operation is a very delicate procedure and I won’t want to put them in harms way. Sometimes, even after the operation, you hear complains of infections or the stitches were not properly tightened.
So, it must be my last alternative and I must make sure the doctor is actually a specialist and has a good track record. What matters to me is the safe delivery of my baby and my wife.
Thanks for inviting me, I have read your story and it is true for safety first. I also advise that in the absence of any other alternative we can go for CS, go that lives could be saved.
Before the operation, let the husband seek the concept of the wife's family so that he will not be in trouble incase the reverse is the case. Thanks
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It is very pathetic how religious belief will so engolf people's mentality that the can watch the child die just because they don't want to go against their religion, I heard you mention small vagina, Actually a virgina can only be small when the women get pregnant at a very tender age, which the strength to push the babies is not there, but on a normal anomalies like the positioning of the baby or other things can make the woman not to be able to deliver, on pregnancy an hormone oestrogen and progesterone(if not mistaken it is the pregnancy hormone) leads to the enlargement of the uterus in preparation for pregnancy. It seems it was a mistske typographical error when you said vagina and the uterus is torn open with a surgical blade, no knife is taken close to the uterus it is a no no no, a lot of people are afraid of CS, as human that normal but a CS is not wrong. I would take my wife on exercise on a dialy basic to ensure that the baby is in its right position and she must eat good food so her hormone can work properly, back then in the Bible days they were no caserean sectioning doctors but midwives that will assist and I don't think they used blade but today a lot of factors have made CS rampant, underage pregnancy, improper nutrition and lot more. Our health should be our top most priority. Goodluck from the end my friend.