I would not have had a C section for breech baby unless he was footling breech.
I was a breech baby myself, born vaginally. I think these days there is an increasing move towards doing C sections to stop the hospital getting sued, rather than because mom and baby's life is at risk.
In the UK, about 15% of births are C sections and a lot of these are for breech or when induction fails, necesitating an emergency C.
I had a terrible birth experience 1st time around (dr's insisted on loads of internals without my consent, which stressed me out and stressed the baby out - I couldn't cope with the pain of being forced to lie on a bed and being poked about by dr's so I asked for analgesia. This meant I had to be monitored. Monitors went wrong and incorrectly recorded no heart beat, thus I was cut without my consent after saying NO and they used forceps to pull her out, after which they discovered her heart was fine and she scored 10 on her apgar scale.
My wound got infected, spread to my uterus and caused me to become almost comatose. I was then 'saved' by antibiotics and codeine from a complication which was dr caused in the first place. Sex was painful for 2 years after and I consider the cut they did with no consent was sexual assault of me. The scar still hurts 9 years later. I was so furious, I threatened to sue the hospital and I with-held consent for such a procedure to be ever performed again. They wrote in my notes, no cut. I said I'd rather have a C section than get cut there again.
I also insisted on natural delivery with minimal intervention with all the others, and dd4 was a home birth with no midwife or dr and by far the best, most spiritual experience I've ever had. I was in awe over my own power!
I reckon my family is complete; I can't see that I would ever have any more, but if I did, I would have them the way I had dd4.
It really does affect the mother's ability to bond if they turn it into a medical problem.
