“At 14 hours when I chose to get an epidural I felt guilty. At 22 hours when we were told I had to get a c section I felt like I had failed.”
For some women, c-section guilt is a very real thing. It’s often impossible to predict what’s going to happen in the delivery room, and, in some cases, things may not go as planned—making a c-section unavoidable. Olympic athlete Shawn Johnson had a very similar experience when she gave birth to her daughter last week, and she took to social media to open up about it.welcoming her daughter
“I went in with such a stubborn mindset of thinking the only way I could bring our baby into the world was naturally. No meds no intervention,” she wrote in the caption of her Instagram post. Along with the Instagram post, the couple also posted a video about the delivery on their Youtube channel, where they have beentheir entire pregnancy journey. The video starts with Johnson, 40 weeks pregnant, calling to schedule an appointment to induce labor.
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