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Five myths about c-sections

[00:00:00] Five misconceptions about C-sections. Number one, that we strap down your arms. We do not strap down your arms. Your arms are resting on arm rests mostly because we need to be in a sterile field from your chest down, so we can't have your arms flailing around, but we don't strap them down unless you're under general anesthesia where you're asleep. 

That's all. Number two, that we cut across your muscles. We don't cut across your muscles. You have a diastasis, which is this natural separation of your rectus abdominal muscles when you're pregnant, cuz that baby has stretched everything out. So we just further stretch it out. Yeah, that part sucks. But we do not cut across your muscles unless rare circumstances where we are struggling to pull them apart. 

Promise that we remove your organs. Look at my fake lashes in this Ella. I'm in this filter. So we don't remove your organs, meaning we do exteriorize your uterus. Some of us, not everyone does it, but we exteriorize meaning after the baby's out in order to really see the incision, well, we exteriorize it, but we don't pull out all your chitlins and bowels like [00:01:00] people think that you're not gonna be able to do skin to skin or delayed cord clamping. 

We still do delayed cord clamping typically for about a minute in most. And you can do skin to skin often. Number five, that it's harder to recover from. This is actually the most important to me because it really depends. You might have a very challenging vaginal birth like I had with my first, where I had to push for three hours and I had a catheter for two days, whereas my C-section was easier. 

So it just depends. Don't assume it's always worse.