Posted on 10/12/2018 8:04:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Doctors' use of Caesarean section to deliver babies has nearly doubled in 15 years to reach "alarming" proportions in some countries, a study says.
Rates surged from about 16 million births (12%) in 2000 to an estimated 29.7 million (21%) in 2015, the report in the medical journal The Lancet said.
The nation with the highest rate for using the surgery to assist childbirth is the Dominican Republic with 58.1%.
Doctors say in many cases the use of the medical procedure is unjustified
A Caesarean section can be a life-saving procedure for both mother and infant if, for example, a baby is in an awkward position in the womb or if labour is not progressing as it should be.
Jane Sandall, professor of social science and women's health at King's College London and an author of one of the studies, told the BBC that the risk for mothers and babies can be both short and long-term.
"In particular, C-sections have a more complicated recovery for the mother, and lead to scarring of the womb, which is associated with bleeding, abnormal development of the placenta, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies."
Prof Sandall says it is important to note that these are small but serious risks, but each of these risks increases with each time a woman undergoes the surgery.
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After my 3rd I was ready to leave the hospital as soon as I left the delivery room. It was the easiest birth but they made me stay put.
Both of my girls were cesarean babies. Only because my wife wasn’t able to have them naturally. Not by choice.
Personal account my wife just could not dilate so emergency C section it was. And then the doctors just said do a C for the next 3 children because the lack of dilation will likely happen again.
The downside is your body can only take so many C sections. After the 4th, the doctor told my wife to stop having children.
It is surgery, so it is not something to do lightly. There is a personal risk to the mother always.
I agree with everything you said. Those ladies all ended up having natural births in spite of their flirtation with the allure of C-sections so they saw the light. Well, except the one who did have a C-section but I think that was medical, truthfully. Anyway, between the girls having gone through natural birth themselves and discovering it wasn’t as terrifying as the war stories they all heard, plus seeing how tough the recover was for their friend with the C-section, their slight flirtation with C-sections ended quickly.
Doctors should know better than to say that. Bodies do different things with different deliveries. My first was a 10 lb. C-section baby (I didn't get past 5 dilation) the next three were regular sized babies delivered naturally.
All of our babies were big, from 8 12 to 10 2
But I'm sure she considers abortion to be okay in all cases. She's also wrong about c-section.
That is not correct.
"Natural" means "without drugs".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural%20childbirth
Only if you consider the Dominican Republic wealthy.
The nation with the highest rate for using the surgery to assist childbirth is the Dominican Republic with 58.1%.
I would look at a correlation between a high number of C-sections and single payer.
Slicing them open and pulling the baby out is much quicker then having them in the hospital tying up the delivery room for hours.
Four reasons for this:
- birth can be scheduled, and it’s never in the middle of the night.
- less waiting, less chance of lawsuit
- higher fee
- herpes
convenience - more so than just emergency or specific complicated births.
Can plan their time off from work or whatever better, instead of it depending on when they baby actually decides to come.
“I was Caesarean born. Can’t really tell. Although whenever I leave the house, I go out the window.”
-Steven Wright
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