Voluntary cesarean The Study on Female Existential Experiences Based on a Sample from Tehran

Over the last few years the attitude towards caesarian has dramatically increased beyond a personal conduct among the Iranian women that has attracted the social researchers’ attention. Some contextual conditions related to women attitudes to voluntarily caesarian and their existential experience has been analyzed in this paper. Therefore, 15 women who passed through caesarian at Laleh Hospital in Tehran at the time of research were interviewed based on interpretational framework and applying qualitative method. According to the results, fear of pain and side effects of vaginal delivery constructed by doctors and relatives were the main reason to choose caesarian over natural delivery by women.The considerable point was that none of the research participants were directed by their doctors to learn about natural delivery preparation either mentally or physically.It seems that women attitudes to caesarian might be moderated by increasing awareness about advantages and disadvantages of two kinds of childbirth, improve quality of vaginal delivery, giving information about new methods of natural delivery like water birth and their coverage by insurance companies, cultural development of traditional or complementary medicine and better surveillance on voluntarily caesarian. Finally, women empowerment in term of cognitive, personal and physical aspects would be a very fruitful factor in this regard.