Everyone Is Losing Their Minds Over What ACTUALLY Happens During A C-Section

  (The Huffington Post) : Mother feeds her newborn baby after a cesarean section - Doctors performing a cesarean section in the operating room - Buenos Aires - Argentina You might have experienced one or know someone who has gone through a c-section, but one video has gone viral because people are just realising what ACTUALLY happens during a caesarean. As April is c-section awareness month, advocates are highlighting information about the surgery. With one in three deliveries completed this way, it’s important to know as much about it as possible to give the best support.  In the video, which was originally posted on TikTok, you can see the layers that need to be cut through in order to get to the baby. The order of layers to cut through is the skin, fat, fascia, muscle (which is pulled apart), peritoneum and uterus. However, before reaching the uterus, the bladder is pulled down to access it. Then finally, the amniotic sac which can be cut or pulled open. Social media users were left shocked to find out doctors had to cut through seven layers to reach the baby. Can’t believe my body went through this and I was awake and the same body is still carrying through this life thing.— Rabi’a Aneesa Idrees (@neesatouX) April 20, 2024 On TikTok users were also quick to share their feelings, one wrote: “I’m 16m postpartum and this is making my c-section scar hurt.” Another said: “And yet you’re expected to get up and walk around a few hours after I still can’t believe I done it afterwards and and years later I still get twinges of pain on my scar.” @mama_nurse_tina The one that started it all: the layers ..