Kate Hudson Faces Backlash After Insensitive C-Section Comments!
Kate Hudson Faces Backlash After Insensitive C-Section Comments!
Kate Hudson recently gave birth to baby number three and on Saturday the actress shared the very first photo of daughter Rani Rose Hudson-Fujikawa.
The adorable photo shows little Rani sleeping in a cot while swaddled in her hospital blanket and wearing a knit baby cap with a ribbon. “Our little rosebud,” Hudson wrote.
The actress however is now facing lot of backlash following some controversial comments made in this month’s issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The article featured a Q&A of sorts and for the most part the responses were quite harmless. They featured things like, “My post-sweat-session hacks,” and “What I do to destress,” but one answer fired up many women. For the “Laziest thing I’ve ever done” part, Hudson wrote down, “Have a C-section!”
Shocked fans of Hudson were quick to respond in a bid to set the actress straight. “How insensitive,” wrote one user on her Instagram. “Shaming a way that so many women don’t chose to have their babies but have to! I labored for over 24 hours before it was no longer safe for me and my baby. I think that’s the furthest thing from lazy! And women who have to have C-sections for other reasons aren’t lazy, this is why our society thinks it’s OK to mom-shame. You lost another fan here.”
“I don’t know what sort of c section you had but the one I had was far from lazy!” said another. “I had all plans to go natural and was 10cm dilated and pushing for hours until I had my baby come out via emergency c section. It was soo painful for weeks and I struggled to even lift my baby for days. I really hope your comment was a joke!”
Now I too have had a C-section and let me tell you there’s NOTHING lazy about it. In fact recovery time is much longer than with vaginal births, and the pain while healing is much more intense.
Other fans however defended the actress’ choice of calling C-sections ‘lazy’ by pointing out that Hudson was merely commenting on her own experience. She delivered her 13-year-old son, Ryder, by caesarean, and her six-year-old Bingham with a vaginal birth.
“I had 3 c sections in the last 4 years, and I found the comment hilarious,” commented one Instagram user. “Sounds exactly like something I would have said as a joke.”
Whatever a woman’s experience of childbirth is, let’s not forget that each one is different and just as special and important as the next. There is no such thing as a lazy birth – only a different one! So let’s stop with the mummy shaming cause at the end of the day who cares how the baby comes out- as long as it comes out! Am I right?!
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