Here, 11 women show their cesarean section scars—and open up about the mental ones—to break the stigma about a procedure shrouded in misconceptions.
, a pair of blunt, occasionally raunchy memoirs. Throughout her pregnancy, Mollen posted nude or almost-nude photos, and wrote openly about being diagnosed with placenta previa, a condition where the placenta covers the cervix. She knew from the start of her second pregnancy that she’d likely deliver Lazlo via C-section, just as she had her first son, Sid.
It’s not just the scarring that goes undiscussed. Most childbirth classes include only a passing mention of C-section, if they cover it at all. That leaves a statistical one third of expectant mothers totally unprepared for the procedure they’ll ultimately undergo. “I had never broken a bone, never had to have surgery, so I was petrified,” she says. “And then when everything was going down and I didn’t have a choice and there I was on the table…it’s scary.”
Dr. Sharon Dekel, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, says many women—especially mothers who have previously-unplanned or emergency C-sections—are at risk for developing childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder . “The sense of helplessness and uncertainly and loss of control; these all put people at risk for PTSD,” she says. “Especially when there’s a discrepancy between your planned birth and what happens.”
“There are drastic biological and physiological and hormonal changes in the context of having a C-section,” Dekel says. “It’s a rollercoaster of hormones, and a drastic interruption in the natural birth experience. It could be that the combination of biological and psychological stressors increases the risk for elevated psychiatric symptoms postpartum.”
Champion’s boyfriend and mother were with her for the first few days after her delivery, but “everybody had to go back to work sooner than I hoped,” she says. It was weeks before she felt like she could even get in and out of bed normally. “They tell you to plan,” she says, of the days immediately following childbirth. “Plan this, plan that. Then it’s, ‘Oh, crap. Now I have a C-section and an extra four weeks recovery time.” Aspects of recovery, she adds, just can’t be planned for.
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