How to be a good mother - seriously?

Not sure how many of you watched the tv programme on channel 4 last night, but if you need to do these very extreme things such as drinking your placenta in a smoothie (?!) to be a good mother then I have totally missed that boat! Some of the opinions on the program were very out-there and definitely riled some mums out there (you only need to go on a mum forum to see the many comments) but what angered me the most? Definitely the c-section quote. According to one of the 'good mums' on the program having a c-section made you have less of a bond with your child! Seriously?! Comments like hers need to be kept to herself, each case of childbirth is different and people judging other mums for having a c-section is a terrible thing to do. I had my little girl via emergency c-section, and far from being an easy birth, as suggested by the 'good mum', I had been in hospital for 4 weeks prior suffering from pre-eclampsia and was very poorly afterwards too. But it hasn't made me bond less with my little girl, if anything it has made me appreciate her being here even more, we are both safe and healthy now thanks to the amazing doctors (not something you hear often in the mass criticism of the NHS nowadays). Many of my friends with babies had emergency c-sections and some of my friends didn't. The ones that found it hard to bond with their babies (some due to post natal depression) had babies that were harder work than usual due to a number of different reasons and through no fault of their own, and it had nothing to do with their births! NB. Harder to bond doesn't mean less of a bond just finding motherhood a little bit more challenging than some x Every pregnancy, every birth, every baby is different. Mums shouldn't judge other mums on how they have had their babies and make silly assumptions. It is hard enough keeping up with what the best thing for your child is according to numerous magazine and newspaper articles and constantly changing government guidelines (breast feeding, weaning ages etc) without other mums judging your choices, or as in emergency c-sections, judging you on something that is totally out of your hands.