I’m mum-shamed for having a c-section all the time – people slam me saying ‘I didn’t really give birth’
A MUM has revealed how she is shamed by other mothers for getting a c-section, as they claim she didn’t “really” give birth.
Mum Ellie revealed all the ways she’s been shamed as a mother since giving birth, and she said she’s even been belittled for getting a c-section.
In a recent video, she described all the conversations she’s had in which she’s realised that she’s being “subtly mom shamed”.
She listed examples of things people had said to her: “‘I don’t let my baby watch screens because blah blah blah’.
“‘You hold your baby too much, you should put them down because you’re spoiling them’.”
And, worst of all, people make rude comments about the mother’s c-section.
She recounted someone saying: “‘Well, since you had a c-section, you didn’t go through labour, so you didn’t really give birth’.”
Others have even told Ellie that her c-section wasn’t medically necessary.
She said: “When a complete stranger tells me that my c-section wasn’t necessary and I should’ve delivered my breech baby ‘naturally’”
The mum has had enough of the shaming, and asked: “Can we all just support each other instead of constantly comparing situations?”
Commenters were livid on Ellie’s behalf.
“The c-section one is so weird like, ‘didn’t give birth?’ Was the baby not born? I mean the baby is here, so it must have been born. Hence birth”, wrote one outraged viewer.
Another said: “Ooooh I HATE when people say sections aren’t delivering. My sister healed from natural birth in 24 hours and I took four months with my daughter after my section.”
“I’ll never understand this ‘you didn’t give birth’. Like, the hell I went through didn’t count? I’m sorry, what?”, wrote another.
Ellie’s c-section actually went viral, as she recorded a singing along to music while her baby was delivered.
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