What? c-sections are MUCH MUCH worse for the mother in every single metric including pain. C-section pain is longer and more severe than natural birth pain, and natural birth pain can be ameliorated which makes it even better - but even with no intervention at all natural birth pain is less than c-section pain.
If you are scheduling a c-section it means you are not trying for a natural birth and that means your outcome for the mother is strictly worse.
