to reduce the trauma and unexpected nature of birth. I'm not surprised
that overall it makes no difference, but each case should be considered
individually, because that is what women are, individuals. For me this
means staying out of the hospital, I won't hesitate to say post natal
depressions and post traumatic stress disorder if beforehand anyone comes
up with any reasons why I shouldn't birth at home.

I see. I guess that's my biases showing. I'm guessing that
if you look at 14,000 women, on average more will find abdominal
surgery (planned or otherwise) more traumatic than vaginal
birth. But you're right --- for someone at risk who knows she'll
find the c-section less traumatic, that might be a sensible
thing to do. That is, when one's weighing risks and benefits,
the risk of PND/benefit of reducing the chance of it are certainly
relevant factors!

dunno, I'm not sure it's the actually surgery, I mean I definitely wouldn't
want to recover from surgery, I've had a laparoscopy which is very minor
compared to a c-section, even with that I couldn't move for 12 hours
afterwards, but comparing the emotional trauma, even though that laparoscopy
wasn't planned, I had 36 hours notice, it was way less traumatic than
Nathanael's arrival, the problem with that was I was induced due to PROM,
but I had a precipitate labour, I went from 5cm to delivery in 20 minutes,
which I think would freak anyone out, scheduling a c-section would avoid
that, my solution is to avoid induction, I think even if I have PROM again I
would refuse vaginal exams and monitor temperature, obviously there are some
reasons where induction would be warranted, so in that case I would be
requesting they drip is increased much much much more slowly.

Cheers

Anne