A mum shared an emotional Facebook post in response to the misconception that a c-section is the ‘easy’ way out.

 

“Oh. A c-section? So you didn’t actually give birth. It must have been nice to take the easy way out like that,” mum Raye Lee began her post, with more than a touch of sarcasm.

 

“Ah, yes,” she continued wryly. “My emergency c-section was absolutely a matter of convenience. It was really convenient to be in labor for 38 hours before my baby went into distress and then every contraction was literally STOPPING his HEART.

 

“Being told at the beginning that I was displaying great progress and wouldn't need a cesarean section... and then being told that I was being prepped for major abdominal surgery was not a shock at all. It had nothing to do with the fact that I physically couldn’t because I was given no other choice to save the life of my child. Oh, and that surgery is super easy peasy to recover from.”

 

 

She then went on to describe just how NOT the easy way out her c-section was, as we’re sure many mamas who gave birth this way can relate to. 

 

“This was the most painful thing I have experienced in my life,” she wrote. “I now belong to a badass tribe of mamas with the scar to prove that I had a baby cut out of me and lived to tell the tale. 

 

“Having a shrieking infant pulled out of an incision that is only 5 inches long, but is cut and shredded and pulled until it rips apart through all of your layers of fat, muscle, and organs (which they lay on the table next to your body, in order to continue to cut until they reach your child) is a completely different experience than I had imagined my son’s birth to be.

 

“When that first nurse asked you to try getting out of bed and the ripping pain of a body cut apart and stitched back together seared through you, you realised the irony of anybody who talks about it being the "easy way out". So f**k you and f**k how you see what I did.

 

“I am the strongest woman that I know. Not only for myself, but for my beautiful son... and I would honestly go through this every single day just to make sure I am able to see his smiling face.”

 

 

We couldn’t agree more. No one has the right to shame any mum for how she gives birth – EVER. And we’re pretty sure this badass mum has shut down any debate that a c-section could ever be considered an easy ride.

 

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