2 benefits and harms of caesarean section compared to normal delivery

Most mothers are advised to give birth often so that they are healthy, and their mothers recover quickly. So let's find out if birth is always better than having a caesarean or not!

1. Normal birth

Advantages for mother

1. In terms of psychology, birth often helps pregnant women have the opportunity to feel every moment when their baby is born.
2. Vietnamese mothers who are born will often feel more proud than caesarean births, but that is just a cultural conception because in fact, caesarean birth or birth is often sacred.It will be short-sighted to say that the birth mother is more often than a caesarean.
3. The mother's recovery time is faster.Mom will have the strength to take care of you and take care of yourself.
4. Mothers can often apply the baby to the chest in a skin-to-skin method - helping to bond the mother and the baby so that the baby has a better start.
5. Milk sources will return very quickly.The process of natural birth will stimulate the mother's body to produce milk soon, so that the baby quickly enjoys valuable colostrum.

The biggest advantage of birth is that mothers will have milk immediately to feed their babies.

Advantages for children

1. During normal delivery, the mother and baby have a connection earlier than the caesarean birth method.
2. Children can breastfeed sooner.
3. Babies born often have better immunity and healthier intestinal tract.The reason is because when children move through the mother's vagina to go out, they will be exposed to beneficial bacteria.At that time, the baby's body produces the corresponding immune system.
4. Children are less likely to have asthma because at birth, the child must pass through the narrow wall of the vagina, helping to expel the fluid in the lungs.
5. The process of birth usually stimulates the follicle to expand, creating favorable conditions for the baby's natural respiration after its birth.

Disadvantages for moms

1. Birth is often extremely painful and stressful for the mother.The mother will have to undergo a prolonged labor process, so she is likely to lose strength and postpartum haemorrhage.
2. In the process of birth, if a problem occurs, the treatment will be very difficult, because the fetus has now dropped to the cervix, so it is impossible to use alternative methods anymore.In this case it will be very dangerous for the fetus.
3. If the mother has lost her strength halfway, she must use scissors or a suction device to suck the baby out.This is not good for babies and they can suffocate during the birth.The mother will have a vaginal tear, perineum rupture, a high risk of infection in the vagina and a long time to recover.

Sometimes a doctor must use a birth tool called a brace and a straw to bring the baby out.

Disadvantages for children

1. If the birth usually lasts too long or the fetus is too big, the child can hurt himself.Children may bruise the scalp sometimes even breaking the clavicle.

2. Caesarean section

Advantages for mother

1. During caesarean section, the pregnant mother can be scheduled in advance, helping her mother to be less painful, even less complicated and more convenient than long-term births.After only 30 minutes on the birth table, the pregnant mother can see her baby.

Advantages for children

1. A caesarean birth will help babies to be born safely without worrying about injury, especially in the case of a large-sized fetus.
2. This method is easy to overcome when an incident occurs, especially for babies who are in danger, because the caesarean section can remove the fetus from the mother's body very quickly.

Caesarean birth helps baby to be born safely and quickly.

Disadvantages for moms

1. The recovery time at delivery is longer than that of normal delivery.The pregnant mother must stay in the hospital longer (about 2-4 days on average) compared to the normal woman.
2. The care of pregnant mothers after birth is also more complicated than normal births, the incision is dull and takes time to recover.
3. During the caesarean section, the mother will lose a lot of blood and become more susceptible to infection.Besides, the intestinal tract may be injured during surgery.
4. The caesarean mother breastfeeds later than regular women.
5. According to a French study, women who give birth a third time by caesarean section are more likely to die than normal births because there is a higher chance of infection or complications during surgery.
6. For caesarean birth, want to get pregnant again need to wait at least two years and the best distance is 5 years.If the pregnancy is the next time after the caesarean section, an abortion is performed, easily resulting in uterine perforation.

Disadvantages for children

1. Caesarean babies are at risk of having respiratory problems or weak immunity because they are not exposed to beneficial bacteria like normal births.
2. Babies may be influenced by some drugs during the caesarean section.
3. When giving birth, the breastmilk is slower, so the long-term delivery is entitled to the source of colostrum from the mother or the full use of the formula.