User post: My best friend is mad at me for getting a C-section

I'm pregnant...due march 3rd. I have a daughter already. She's almost seven. She was a big baby and weighed in over ten pounds. When I was well past my due date I was finally induced. Labor went nowhere. I had an emergency c-section. My best friend, who already had 2 kids by then, was really mad at me for "taking the easy way out".

With this pregnancy there is a chance that this baby will also be a large baby and my doctor and I have already talked it over. I want to schedule a c-section. My doctor told me that we can schedule a c-section for a week before my due date but if I go into labor before then we'll see how it progresses and give natural childbirth a shot. I'm okay with this. Again my best friend, who now has 3 kids, is mad at my decision. All of her kids were born natural. She had no pregnancy complications and none of her babies weighed over 7 pounds.

She tells me that a c-section is the easy way out. That I'll never know what it's like to really have a baby. (I don't even know what she means by that). She honestly doesn't get that it's major surgery and carries risks just like any other. I'm tired of defending my right to do it this way every time I talk to her. We've known each other since we were in 5th grade and nothing has come between us like this has. One of her sons is just a few months older than my daughter and she's always comparing them. "James hasn't been sick all year, Des has been. Probably because I had James naturally." It drives me crazy. What's even more crazy is I've heard others also say that having a c-section is cheating. Two women in the doctor's office the other day were talking to each other, one was saying how she refuses to have a c-section and thinks less of women who do because it's cheating. Is there a c-section haters club I don't know about?