{"id":59031,"date":"2025-03-29T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=59031"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:04:36","slug":"what-they-dont-tell-you-about-c-sections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59031","title":{"rendered":"What They Don&#8217;t Tell You About C-Sections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-59032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womb_Raiders.jpg\" alt=\"Womb Raiders\" width=\"858\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womb_Raiders.jpg 926w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womb_Raiders-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Womb_Raiders-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0\">For more than a century, there has been a push to medicalize childbirth and transform it from a natural life event to something requiring major interventions so nothing goes amiss<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1\">Many of the standard procedures done during hospital births increase your risk of needing other invasive interventions, eventually cascading into requiring a cesarean section<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2\">Like other major abdominal surgeries, C-sections expose mothers to significant risk, require a prolonged recovery, and leave large scars which can cause a wide range of chronic issues<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3\">C-sections also expose infants to real risks and predispose them to a variety of chronic autoimmune and neurological issues<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4\">This article will discuss the risks of C-sections, the situations where they are necessary, and some approaches that can be used to recover from them<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2025\/03\/28\/risks-of-c-sections.aspx\">https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2025\/03\/28\/risks-of-c-sections.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a century, there has been a push to medicalize childbirth and transform it from a natural life event to something requiring major interventions so nothing goes amiss Many of the standard procedures done during hospital births increase your risk of needing other invasive interventions, eventually cascading into requiring a cesarean section Like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Tell You About C-Sections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59033,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031\/revisions\/59033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}