How To Heal From A Cesarean Section

Are you a mother or father who is healing from a Caesarean delivery? Good … keep going.

Are you healing physically? It takes time.

Are you healing emotionally? It takes time.

Are you stuck in your healing? It takes time.

Is there anything Birthing Better can do to help you in your healing from a cesarean delivery? We hope so.

Who are ‘we’? We are a New Zealand charitable Trust called Common Knowledge. That name was chosen very carefully because the branch of the Trust that holds Birthing Better holds the Birth Stories and birthing skills of tens of thousands of BirthingBetter families who developed and used these birth and birth coaching skills. So we speak with a common language by sharing common knowledge.

What did BirthingBetter families learn about healing from a Cesarean?

• It takes time.
• Sometimes a C-section is wanted or needed yet there is still a process of healing.
• Sometimes the Casarean felt unnecessary or pressured which adds another level of the healing process.
• Healing is within oneself and within the family.
• Being skilled or gaining skills can assist in the healing process after a cesarian birth.

How did BirthingBetter families use these birth and birth coaching skills to heal after a cesarian?

• It all boiled down to having skills and using them.
• If lack of skills may have led to a surgical birth then learning skills and believing they could have been use to reduce or prevent the cesarean OR used while being prepped and during surgery.
• Skilled families always healed more easily from their Caesarian birth.
• These skills can help you heal as well. That’s why we have loved making them available to families like yours for forty-five years.