While there are many women who like to go for an easy and painless delivery, caesarean operation has always been found to be the best option. However, it was found in a survey, involving 22,000 women in 2009 and 2010, that there are nearly 50% women who had gone for C-section after their doctors said so else they would have preferred to go for normal delivery.

There are many women like Sheridan Coombs who had planned to give birth in the traditional manner, but was left with no option in the end but to go for caesarean. It was told that she had bear the pain for long 15 hours after which she gave birth to her daughter Makenna but through caesarean. It was told to be the best option for both the mother and her baby.

Even Professor Sue Kruske, Director of the Queensland Mothers and Babies Centre, who is leading the study from the University of Queensland’s Centre for Mothers & Babies (QCMB), admits that there is growing perception that women are the ones who are forcing such quick means to get over with the painful normal delivery, however, it is actually a doctor’s decision to let a women go for C-section or for normal delivery.

There are reports that indicate that there is significant rise in caesarean sections in Queensland from 19% of all births in 1989 to 34% today. Among all, private hospitals were found to be having the highest rate of caesareans at 48% of births.

The team is of the say that “normal vaginal delivery is an important programming event with life long-health consequences”. There is need for the popular myth surrounding women pushing for C-section to be burst out so that the real problems are being dealt with utmost attention and the deserving care.