Why do people stress that c section is major surgery when they talk against c sections?
There are many different levels of “major surgery” – major just means that you have to have anesthesia – a tonsilectomy is “major surgery”. Did you have abdominal surgery? I had my gallbladder removed laporoscopically, where they only make a few small (less than 1 inch) incisions in your abdomen to remove a very small organ – it’s very minimal and I was still in bed for 2 weeks, and limited mobility for a few more weeks after that. When you have a c-section, you aren’t even allowed to climb stairs for a few weeks – that can make caring for an infant by yourself quite a difficult task. Not to mention the fact that the organ they cut into is constantly being irritated by the normal contractions you get for weeks as your uterus returns to a normal size. Those are the things that people mean when they say “It’s major surgery” – what they really should say is “It’s major abdominal surgery”.
