I Am sick and tired of hearing women give birth after being operated, i mean is just too much these days, i can confidently say 7 out of 10 childbirths are through c section especially in urban areas, haba, why cant we continue doing It naturally like it was before, push push or induced Labour, is that Doctors have connived to milk Money out of expectant parents because C Section is damn expensive, is it a plot by WHO to discourage people across the world From giving birth because of the Cost of C section, pleeeeese dont tell me It's because of complications, the Rate of Child birth operations is just alarming these days and Doctors are smiling to the Banks in the process.

They need more money. Am suspecting a particular doctor in Benin that gives antenatal ladies a certain injection maybe, "to make their babies big and hard for normal delivery". Three of our family friends that registered in the hospital were all through CS. One of them, her mum had all her siblings at the hospital through CS, and she had her three babies through CS at same hospital.

I still wonder what kind of injection they give a pregnant woman that is not sick. Not that the baby on delivery will weigh up to 4kg. Some people still deliver 4kg through normal delivery elsewhere.

Nice revelation There, i think people should start speaking up, cus something is definately wrong somewhere

Yeah something is definitely amiss. The health sector is becoming something else. They find ways of milking patients. They give scary prognosis.

babakb:
I Am sick and tired of hearing women give birth after being operated, i mean is just too much these days, i can confidently say 7 out of 10 childbirths are through c section especially in urban areas, haba, why cant we continue doing It naturally like it was before, push push or induced Labour, is that Doctors have connived to milk Money out of expectant parents because C Section is damn expensive, is it a plot by WHO to discourage people across the world From giving birth because of the Cost of C section, pleeeeese dont tell me It's because of complications, the Rate of Child birth operations is just alarming these days and Doctors are smiling to the Banks in the process.

Op, I can understand your feelings, and to be honest with you some of your observations are correct while some of your assertions are not. I will take them bit by bit.

babakb:
I Am sick and tired of hearing women give birth after being operated, i mean is just too much these days, i can confidently say 7 out of 10 childbirths are through c section especially in urban areas, haba,....

Truly, the rate of C-section has been on the rise since the past decade, however to say that 7 out 10 childbirths is via CS is outrageously incorrect. if your statement were anything to go by, it means that 70% of all deliveries is by caesarean section....No na, that is unthinkable, at least at the moment.

To be honest with you NO COUNTRY IN THE WHOLE WORLD HAS THAT RECORD, as at today. WHO recommends CS rate of 10-15% but that has been difficult to achieve globally.

http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/maternal_perinatal_health/cs-statement/en/

It may interest you to know that The Caribbeans and the South American region has the highest CS rate in the world at the moment, at the rate of 42.9% that is roughly 4 out of 10 deliveries.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4743929/

Infact Africa and other developing countries have the lowest CS rate in the world.... may be due to poor data collection systems.

I will give you some reasons why CS is on the rise globally, especially as it affects us in Nigeria.

babakb:
...... why cant we continue doing It naturally like it was before, push push or induced Labour, is that Doctors have connived to milk Money out of expectant parents because C Section is damn expensive, is it a plot by WHO to discourage people across the world From giving birth because of the Cost of C section.

FINANCIAL GAINS
One of the reasons why CS rate is increasing as you rightly pointed out is because many people (including non doctors) do it for money. People feel that CS is a very easy surgery, and so they coin up non-existing reasons and give the woman, putting fear in her, thereby indirectly threatening her into submission, for selfish personal aggrandizement.

QUACKERY
Many people who perform CS are not doctors, there are a lot of quacks everywhere, people posing with stethoscopes around their neck, just because they work as cleaners in operating theatres and so feel that they have observed enough and therefore, they can as well cut.

These quacks open clinics and because they work in the hospital, they are "doctors"

Most of our women cannot differentiate between the real doctor and the quack, they will tell you that after all he also works in that Government hospital.

ATTEMPTS AT HOME
Another reason is because majority of our women in labour are being managed by people who do not understand the way labour works. As a matter of fact, no labour is normal until it has ended well. Such people cannot be able to identify problems on time in order to correct it until it is too late, leading to intervention by CS.

Home delivery is dangerous, even though we may term it that it is delivery like the Hebrew women

For everyone reading this, please, if any woman has been found to be in real labour for up to 12 hours please raise an alarm!!! If you ask your doctor he/she will tell you there is real labour and there is false labour. It is negligent of one's responsibility and a criminal to allow a woman to be in real labour for 24 hours or for the water to burst for more than 12 hours.

So people should avoid presenting late to hospital while in labour.

To be fair to you, some doctors are also contributing in increasing the rate for financial gains.

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT
In this age and time, technology has its own disadvantages, aside the numerous advantages. Because of increased monitoring of pregnancy and labour, mist if these machines can detect any small abnormality which if left may jeopardize the woman's joy after nine solid months.

To avert this, doctors will act on the side of caution to bring out a healthy baby before any untoward event happens. No reasonable Doctor will like to deliver a dead baby or a baby which cannot cry at birth.

LITIGATION
Another reason is the increasing rate of litigation against obstetricians. it is assumed that if a doctor does CS and the baby dies, he will be said to have done all that he could, but if he didn't, then the question will be why didn't you do CS doctor?

MATERNAL REQUEST
Self explanatory, I presume

babakb:
...., why cant we continue doing It naturally like it was before, push push or induced Labour,...............

To be honest with you, one of the interventions to reduce CS rate is induction of labour.... but most of these labours that we induce may fail to initiate labour, and in order to bring out a healthy baby, doctors may resort to CS.

By the way, before induction of labour is started, such hospital must have facility for emergency caesarean section including blood banking services, otherwise, it is QUACKERY.

babakb:
......., is it a plot by WHO to discourage people across the world From giving birth because of the Cost of C section,.

Actually, the WHO and other bodies including RCOG (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists), ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists), SOGON (Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Of Nigeria), etc, are strong advocates of vaginal delivery (doing it the natural way) and that is why they keep bringing out guidelines geared at reducing CS rate, especially where the baby is "sitting down inside the womb"....breech!

YES, WE CAN!
Yes we can!!!. We can help in our own individual ways to reduce the rate of caesarean section. We should encourage our women to register for Antenatal services early when they are pregnant in a clinic or hospital where there is a trained provider.

That is someone who has undergone some training on pregnancy and childbirth, recognition of problems and early referral to nearby facilities where the woman can get help.

Husbands should make available the necessary finances for such registration on time while the government should make antenatal services free for our pregnant women and such promises should not just be relegated to the pages of their manifesto.

We should encourage our women to deliver in the hospital. This is because facility-based deliveries have been found to be important factor in reducing maternal deaths.

From the National Demographic Health Survey 2013, about 576 women die during childbirth or following complications thereof out of 100, 000 deliveries. Not surprising is the fact that only about 36% of them deliver in the hospital while a whooping 63% deliver at home.

Surprisingly from the same report, women who are less than 20 years of age are less likely to deliver in the hospital.

Government should also provide functional facilities that are easily accessible to our pregnant women, and should back their campaign promises with actions.

By so doing, we will not just reduce the CS rate but also the alarming maternal mortality ratio of 576 will also assume a downward trend.

Cheers!!
Dominique, do the needful