Polish Mother of Sorrows. After cesarean [comment]

As many as half of women in Poland choose a cesarean. It is not surprising for them. They are afraid of pain, because anesthesia on request has been guaranteed for three years, but … on paper. And they are afraid for a child – Polish delivery centers are still a dangerous place. And when they happily give birth to the desired emperor, they cannot enjoy motherhood in peace, because they are flooded by a wave of hatred – those who gave birth naturally say: “Did you have a caesarean? You are not a real mother. ” It’s hard to believe that all this is happening in the XNUMXst century.

The WHO recommends that such births should not be more than 10 percent. In Poland, almost 50 percent of women have an emperor, according to the reports of the Rodzić po Human Foundation. And although many doctors do not like it (extensive surgery, serious risk, including distant consequences, including former health ministers – Ewa Kopacz, who believed that even the legitimacy of anesthesia should be decided by a doctor, not a woman (!) And Konstanty Radziwiłł ( “There is no question of carrying out the program of cesarean sections on demand”), but the latter, like Łukasz Szumowski, the current Minister of Health, said that every woman who is waiting for anesthesia should get it.

Only it’s still wishful thinking.

From 1 July 2015, the law guarantees every woman free anesthesia for childbirth. We are, of course, talking about real, spinal anesthesia, not paracetamol.

But this law only works on paper.  

Many hospitals still lack anesthesiologists, so a woman can never be sure that if she goes to the delivery room, she will get anesthesia.

It is strange that the hospitals did not receive an avalanche of lawsuits that could be brought before the courts for women who were born and who were not given anesthesia, although guaranteed. Maybe because women want to quickly forget about this trauma and not come back to it during court hearings. Or maybe they think that “nobody will win with the doctor”? 

And if the woman has successfully undergone a cesarean, she returns home with her baby, she will be hit by another blow. When she looks on the Internet, she looks for support from advanced women in motherhood on parenting portals. Hate will get her:

“Did you have a cesarean? You are not a real mother. ” It is hard to believe that this is the XNUMXst century and that it is written by women. Pain in childbirth is a “test” to be a True Mother ?! Is it the syndrome of a suffering Polish mother, imprinted in DNA, sucked out with mother’s milk or stuck in the brain, heard in religion “you will give birth in pain”?

By the way, I hate that biblical quote. I hope that catechists and priests will stop giving it to children during lessons and Sunday sermons, if they want Polish women to associate the birth of a child not with pain, but with happiness and love.