Five successful caesarean sections

If a woman does not have any obvious physical problems during pregnancy, or the baby in her belly does not have an abnormal fetal position, it is best to choose natural birth. Although cesarean section is very convenient, it causes much more harm to the female body than natural birth. Moreover, some women are too weak to undergo multiple caesarean sections. Some women have successfully undergone five caesarean sections. Is this good for women's health?

Caesarean section is to cut open the abdominal wall and uterus to take out the fetus. It is an important surgical method of delivery. According to experts, cesarean section was originally a remedial surgery limited to pathological factors of the mother and baby. For example, if the mother has obvious pelvic abnormalities, pelvic stenosis, or suffers from serious internal and external diseases such as heart disease, placenta previa, or placental abruption, the obstetrician will recommend a cesarean section. However, many healthy expectant mothers choose to have their babies by caesarean section due to fear of labor pain, choice of an auspicious time to deliver the baby, and unwillingness to affect the quality of postpartum sex life.

Experts say there is no exact number for how many cesarean sections a woman can have in her lifetime. There was a report abroad that a woman had undergone 7 caesarean sections. But try not to perform more than 3 cesarean sections. Generally, after the second or third cesarean section, the mother will be recommended to undergo sterilization. Because of three or more cesarean sections, the scar on the uterus may cause spontaneous uterine rupture in the late pregnancy, and the risk of further delivery will be very high.

For women who have already had a caesarean section, whether they can continue to have a caesarean section during their next pregnancy depends on their body's recovery.

Experts said that clinically confirmed, the average amount of blood loss of women undergoing cesarean section is more than 300 ml, more than double the blood loss of vaginal delivery; cesarean section can cause wound infection, intraoperative amniotic fluid embolism, surgical accidents, uterine injury and resection, etc. The chance of postpartum hemorrhage and accidental death is higher than normal vaginal delivery; the mother recovers slowly after surgery and is prone to complications such as venous stasis, chronic abdominal pain caused by adhesions of pelvic and abdominal tissues, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, etc. Caesarean section can only be chosen again when the complications left over from the previous caesarean section have disappeared.

In addition, the most appropriate time interval between two caesarean sections should be about 2 years. "If you get pregnant again within a short period of time, the scar will not heal firmly and there is a high risk of uterine rupture, endangering the safety of mother and child. If the time interval is too long, the uterine scar will have become fibrotic, more brittle, and easily torn." Experts say that many women want to have a "natural birth" when they get pregnant again because they cannot bear the pain after a cesarean section, but this requires comprehensive consideration based on prenatal examinations, such as the size and position of the fetal head, and the situation of the labor process after delivery.