C-section

The number of c-sections performed in the U. S. each year for medical reasons isn't counted.

What's more, the total number of C-sections among first-time mothers who underwent elective induction dropped 60%.

And c-sections are often ordered when a baby's heart rate goes down during labor.

The bans only affect planned caesareans, not c-sections which are carried out for emergency reasons.

The college of obstetrics strongly advises that induction of labor or c-sections should not be performed prior to 39 weeks.

A recent study finds C-sections may be a contributing to babies being born too early.

Second and third c-sections also have higher risks of excessive bleeding that could necessitate a hysterectomy.

It noted C-sections have reached "epidemic proportions" in many countries worldwide.

Prior to that, C-sections were generally performed only when the mother was dead or dying.

Cesarean deliveries are termed C-sections on a routine bases by health care providers.

By increasing the occurrence of c-sections we are culturally inferring with evolutionary selected traits.

A government panel warned against elective C-sections in 2006.

But they are generally safer than c-sections, Dr. Meyer says.

C-sections are far more common and often a precautionary measure in multiple births, which is why the study focused on single births only.

C-sections are also 20 percent more common for males.

Many doctors schedule c-sections between 36 and 40 weeks gestation when most fetuses can survive outside the womb.

A 2009 New England Journal of Medicine study also found that one in three C-sections are done before 39 weeks.

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