Abstract
Emma Farrar is a fifth year Liverpool medical student based in Lancaster for the last two years. This article came about as part of an obstetrics and gynaecology rotation with Mr David Burch. Emma is interested in this topic because of its high profile in the media, with celebrities deeming themselves ‘too posh to push’, and because when attending antenatal clinics many women seem to want a caesarean often regardless of whether they have a clinical indication and many seem to have the perception that it is the ‘easy option’ as opposed to a natural birth.
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