3.2 Maternal awareness about CS in general
The maternal awareness about CS was measured based on response to 8 questions (Table 2 ). Most of the respondents stated that the source of their knowledge about CS was from the internet (36.2%), family and friends (31.6%), and with a lower percent having their knowledge from workers in the medical fields (24.8%). Thirty-one percent (31.2%) of respondents stated that CS doesn’t carry risks on maternal‘s health, about 35% of respondents didn’t have a clear opinion, and 33.8% of respondents see that CS carry risks on the mothers. Regarding if CS carries risks on infants’ health, 56.9% thought that CS carries no risk on infants and 31.9% had no clear opinion. On the other hand, the majority of respondents disagree with performing CS under maternal request (59.2%). In agreement with that, 59.6% think that CS needs guarantee to be performed under medical reasons only as 53.8% of the respondents can mention at least one complication of CS (mostly were bleeding, pain at the wound site, long recovery period, infection, adhesion, anesthesia complications, thrombosis, and scar). About 53% of respondents stated that the most common reason leading women to choose to give birth via CS is the fear of labor pain.