This is a compilation of women’s responses from the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) e-mail list (names appear as requested by contributors). One woman asked a simple question to help persuade her friend: What’s so bad about cesarean sections? Almost 75 women responded. These are just some of their poignant accounts, which illustrate the reason that instinctive birth is so important. The further we stray from it, the more women lose, emotionally, spiritually and physically.