This Blogger Proved C-Sections Are NOT the Easy Way Out With 1 Viral Photo

This Blogger Proved C-Sections Are NOT the Easy Way Out With 1 Viral Photo Is there a wrongor right way to bring another life into the world? People somehow still seem to thinkso. Women who give birth to their babies via cesarean section are sometimes chastised for not giving birth vaginally, often viewed as the natural way.Andsome outspokencritics have publically declaredc-sections not actual birth. But despite the attempts to shame them, women who have had c-sections are speaking up.Lifestyle blogger, PANDA ambassador, and Mummy Time co-hostOlivia White had no problem dismissingthe fallacy that having a c-section is taking the easy way out. The Australian mother of two took to Instagramafter the birth of her second child to deutsche post dhl this close-up photo of her belly.Source InstagramWhite displayedthe 6 inch gash in her abdomen that lookedlike a gutted shark who had the body parts of the surfer it ate retrieved in the selfie, which she initially took to view the scar hersel f. You know, since she couldnt see past her still inflamed uterus.And in case showing the scar wasnt enough to prove c-sections are no joke, White went further to describe the (pretty painful) experience. She said the sensation she experienced after the anesthesia wore off wasnt much more enjoyable than the feels like your vital organs are trying to escape. And the feeling she endured while being sewn back up? White wroteIts like youve been hit by a bus which then backed over you just to make koranvers it didnt miss you the first time.In the hundreds of comments that Whites post garnered, many women thanked her and offeredup tales of their own c-sections. Several recalled thefeelings of guilt they experienced after receiving negative comments after their deliveries.In 2017,about 32% of babies in the United States were born by C-section. C-sections are often required when delivering a baby vaginally would risk the life of either the mother or the baby. If these statistics, andWhites photo and graphic description, arent enough to adjust the attitudes of naysayers, then its difficult to imagine anything that would.In spite of all the pain associated with the grueling experience, White could definitively sayit was worth it.But for all the skin tight Kookai dresses I bought while pregnant that now make me look like I have a kangaroo pouch I wouldnt change it, she said. Because if it wasnt for the ability to deliver my babies this way, they might not be here.--Kayla Heisler is an essayist and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. She is a contributing writer for Color My Bubble. Her work appears in New Yorks Best Emerging Poets anthology.