It seems that the "need" to know exactly when birth will take place, has inspired many Mothers and Doctors to opt for Caesarean sections, which can actually be SCHEDULED.
In England, they have called that "too posh to push", meaning that mostly affluent Mothers have opted for the procedure. (As a digression, 'posh' comes from the days when wives would travel out to visit their husbands in India on the big liners of the day; the comfortable side of the ship was the side away from the intense sun: hence, Port Out, Starboard Home. or so the story goes! )
In any event, any woman contemplating putting convenience above nature in a non-emergency situation, needs to be aware that the risk for complications in the Mother are three-fold: hematomas, cardiac events and aesthetic failures being the most frequent.
More alarming, to my mind, is that the risk to the infant is ALSO three-fold: three times more babies dying after the procedure.
Leaving it to Mother Nature may not be convenient, but it appears to be a great deal more efficient!
