Professional and celebrity mums often choose a caesarian delivery for their babies, believing it to be the easier option. But the op can be riskier than natural birth with a longer recovery time.
Evening Express reporter Suzy Aspley reveals that had she had a choice, she wouldn't have gone under the knife to have her son, Finn.

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I'd never wanted a caesarean birth for my child and had convinced myself that it would not happen to me.

So it came as a tremendous shock when I ended up having an emergency section last summer at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital.

My baby - Finn - wriggled too much during labour and got stuck. The doctors had to get him out quickly.

At all my ante-natal classes I avoided all the leaflets and discussions about having to have my baby delivered in this way simply because I was terrified.

It was the idea of having to have an operation which put me off.

I have never understood why many celebrity and working mums want to voluntarily book themselves into hospital to go under the knife.

It's certainly not the easy option to take and sometimes can cause problems in the early days after the birth. Because of my reticence I really had no idea what to expect.

But the docs dealt with my hysterics and told me that for my own and my baby's safety, I had to have the surgery. An epidural and an hour later in theatre I was holding my son.

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