A Kenyan man has sparked outrage on Twitter after he made an insensitive comment about women who gave birth through cesarean section (CS).
The man, a computer scientist from Kenya, opined in a post he shared on the microblogging platform that women who gave birth via cesarean section (CS) don’t love their children as much as women who gave birth naturally.
According to him, women who gave birth through CS don’t love their children enough because they don’t know the pain of giving birth.
He noted that they didn’t labor enough for the child, and the only experience of childbirth they have is surgery pain, which is reduced by anesthetic drugs.
“UNPOPULAR OPINION: Mothers who gave birth through cesarean section(CS) don’t know the pain of giving birth. They didn’t labor enough for the child hence they don’t really love their children. They only know surgery pain which is reduced by anesthetic drugs. Anyway, what do I know?” He wrote on Twitter.
His post sparked reactions from netizens, especially women, who condemned him for trivializing the pain of childbirth.
Reacting, a Twitter user @LauraJackieCar2 wrote, “Unbelievable! So being cut and opened up has become the new ecstasy? Even being pregnant for 9 months isn’t pain enough to love a child?”
@gbaoo wrote, “Labour Pain can be intensed but shorter to the pain of CS, after many years the pain sensations and the scar remains for life. Don’t compare the two childbirth mode. I know how it is because I experienced it. It made me love my spouse better than before, seeing her slashed opened”.
