Thanks for explaining it to my tiny woman mind! Just, maybe use smaller words next time.

Why the fuck do you support that garbage with viewership?

So lets get this straight: generalizing all women is misogynistic and sexist, but generalizing all men is a-ok because reasons.

Recovery is WAY harder; it's a major surgery that slices through muscles, but for a baby this big, yes, it would be easier. Typically, the doctor can get a reasonably good estimate of the size of the baby in the weeks before birth and if it is above a certain size a c-section may automatically be scheduled rather…

No, it sucks more, actually. The recovery is utter shite. They STAPLE YOUR ABDOMEN back together. It fucking sucks all the donkey balls.

In regards to a child this size or in general?
My aunt gave birth to a 13 pound baby boy completely naturally, no drugs in the whirlpool in her labor and delivery room. She didn't need an episiotomy. She had only minor tearing. That was also her 4th child.
My friend's first son was born vaginally and only weighed 6 lb…

My C-section was great, recovery was minimal. I was going up and down the stairs in my house four days afterward. So, yeah, I imagine particularly for a giant baby, the c-section sucks far less.

Recovery for a C-Section can be FAR more difficult. Giving birth vaginally can range from "beautiful experience full of wonder" to "carnage on my va-jay-jay". That being said, some women dilate enough for even enormous babies.

Nope— longer recovery time. It's painful major abdominal surgery.

Seven layers of tissue! That's how much gets cut through for a C-section. It's gonna hurt either way, but most people say that recovering from a C-section is much longer than a vaginal birth, what with the seven layers of injured tissue.

Ha! No. No no no. I'd guess that the same thing that happened to me happened to this woman: You labor for a long time, push for hours, and eventually things get dicey... the baby gets stressed and you're worn out. Eventually you get a C-section and the doctor finds that the baby is too big to have ever descended…

As I understand it, C-sections, though certainly the right call in some situations (I myself was a C-section baby), are still major surgery and thus incredibly painful with long recovery times, and all the inherent risks that come with other major surgeries. (Infections, etc etc.)

The weight matters, but not because it makes the C-section any different. I had twins who weighed a total of about thirteen pounds plus the weight of assorted accoutrements such as placentas et al, and while the recovery from the surgery was not exactly the highlight of my life, the recovery from the pregnancy itself…

In answer to your question, I think that with a baby at this sort of size, most medical professionals would recommend a c-section delivery, at least if they had some idea of the size ahead of time.

I'm a lady and if I ever decide to have a baby grow to term inside me I'm getting a private c-section (I live in the uk, so nhs could pay but it would be unnecessary, thus privately paid). I think, given no complications, natural childbirth has less recovery time and complications. I personally have toccophobia…

I think it would. I think a C-section might be the way to go if the head is significantly larger and well formed (as in, the bone is firmer - can't remember the correct word for it).

I wouldn't think weight would matter too much in a C-section....but I have no real clue.

Sure, it would for a baby this size. But also C-sections involve weeks if not months of recuperation from getting your torso cut open and then sewed back up again. I hear with vaginal birth that many women feel somewhat back to normal the day of or after birth. Of course it still takes 6 weeks to fully heal, but you…

As someone who has given birth naturally (well, with a few happy drugs), I wouldn't have wanted a C-section, no matter how it avoided discomfort at the time. Recovery from childbirth is bad enough (stitches down there — uh, ouch) but recovering from massive surgery - going through all stomach muscles, the uterus,…

Not sure what the process is like before you actually have the C-section (like labor pains and whatnot), but recuperating from a C-section is really painful because they cut through your abdominal muscles and you need that shit. That's how my mom explained to me anyway (minus the cursing.)