It’s unclear to me why you report the 95% confidence interval for some of the results but not others.
In discussing these ideas with doctors, I get a common response that “A c-section is major abdominal surgery!”
The history of the 20th century shows a lot of cases where doctors thought they knew better and did surgeries that were not helpful for patients because of factors that were not well understood by the doctors at the time. The heuristics to avoid surgeries when possible are built on a good basis.
Major surgeries tend to often have various side effects and usually, not all side effects are measured. Scar tissue can lead to loss of flexibility in the resulting tissue which in turn leads to more stiffness and tension in the body. The loss of flexibility of a single c-section seems to be enough to be a problem for future vaginal pregnancies, I don’t think it makes sense to otherwise value that flexibility at zero. Lower back pain would be one symptom that could be caused by the loss of flexibility but there are others as well.
Two arguments I heard about why c-sections might be bad for the baby are:
It’s unclear to me why you report the 95% confidence interval for some of the results but not others.
The history of the 20th century shows a lot of cases where doctors thought they knew better and did surgeries that were not helpful for patients because of factors that were not well understood by the doctors at the time. The heuristics to avoid surgeries when possible are built on a good basis.
Major surgeries tend to often have various side effects and usually, not all side effects are measured. Scar tissue can lead to loss of flexibility in the resulting tissue which in turn leads to more stiffness and tension in the body. The loss of flexibility of a single c-section seems to be enough to be a problem for future vaginal pregnancies, I don’t think it makes sense to otherwise value that flexibility at zero. Lower back pain would be one symptom that could be caused by the loss of flexibility but there are others as well.
Two arguments I heard about why c-sections might be bad for the baby are:
1) They lead to a worse gut microbiome
2) Osteopaths believe that the pressure that gets exerted during birth on the skull is part of the normal development of the skull.