For Vanessa Tantalo, a Brampton, Ont.-based interior designer, the days and weeks after giving birth to her son via an unplanned Cesarean section were?not fun. In addition to feeling disappointed that she wasn?t able to have a traditional delivery, Tantalo was in a lot of discomfort and felt isolated. ?Since you?re only allowed to lift the baby or the carrier?but not both?I wasn?t able to go out by myself for six weeks,? she says.
Aly Tyghter, a nutrition expert in Brampton, Ont., had a similarly negative experience when she delivered her daughter via unplanned C-section in 2013. ?My recovery was awful,? she says. ?I didn’t have any complications, but I just wasn’t fully prepared for how difficult it would be to function with a scar across my pelvis.? Tyghter also found breastfeeding difficult because she couldn?t twist to get the baby out of her bassinet, or lift her easily. ?Even walking was hard.? After a steady decline from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, there?s been a rise in the rate of C-sections in Canada, from 19 percent of all births in 1997 to 27.5 percent in 2014 and if you live in some provinces, the rate is even higher: as of 2014, 30 percent of births in PEI are C-sections, as are almost 34 percent in BC. 
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