Monday

c-sections

The c-section rate in this country continues to go up.

Anecdotally, my impression is that more women are choosing to be induced or have a surgical birth for reasons of convenience or because they are worried about the pain of vaginal birth.

But this new study seems to indicate that most of the pressure for vlountary c-sections is coming from the doctors.

1 comment:

Lisa said...

The county in which I live has ONE hospital that offers Labor & Delivery (the other hospitals have stopped offering this service due to outrageous malpractice rates). This hospital does not allow VBAC.