caesareans

• “Babies born after in vitro maturation (IVM) fertility treatment are more likely to be born larger than normal and to have more difficult births requiring more obstetric interventions such as caesareans, a review has suggested.”

  Medindia Health News

• “Most Indian doctors say they refuse requests for unnecessary caesareans.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When the Stars Align, Indians Say, It's a Good Time to Have a C-Section

• “From the health historian Louise Foxcroft, describing maternal-request caesareans as "absurd vanity" and an example of society's "ever-present gynophobia", to Jenni Murray in the Daily Mail, lamenting this extension of maternal choice as a "victory" for the vanity of the "too posh to push brigade", the columnar consensus has been resoundingly of the view that nature knows best.”

  The Guardian: Please, render unto caesareans a little less hysteria | Catherine Bennett

• “Applied to the increase in decadent caesareans for women who can't even be bothered to have a free orgasm, the paradoxical injunction would require clinicians to tell women to go right ahead and do that, yes, to have their stupid, selfish caesareans, quite guiltlessly, as if it was just as good as a normal birth and the NHS really did not care one way or the other about the appalling waste of money.”

  The Guardian: Please, render unto caesareans a little less hysteria | Catherine Bennett

• “The result, if it worked, would be an immediate explosion of disgust from women, of all types and political denominations, which would deplore "the folly of caesarean births for everyone", "the madness of caesareans on demand" and caesareans as a "lifestyle choice", then, for good measure, feature a selection of prominent, Too Much Information-defying victims' stories depicting the hideous truth behind this perversion of consumer choice.”

  The Guardian: Please, render unto caesareans a little less hysteria | Catherine Bennett

• “One popular explanation for the rise in caesareans is that clinicians wish, self-servingly, to lower the risk of litigation following deaths or injuries in childbirth.”

  The Guardian: Please, render unto caesareans a little less hysteria | Catherine Bennett

• “They recommend planned caesareans for women with medical indications such as the placenta covering the neck of the womb, a twin pregnancy in which one baby doesn't look as if they will be delivered head first and a breech, in which the baby can't be turned.”

  The Guardian: Dr Dillner's health dilemmas: should I have a caesarean section?

• “And 41 per cent of babies are born at between 37 and 39 weeks – a figure that is on the rise, largely because of an increase in nonemergency or elective caesareans.”

  Babies Born One Week Early Are at Higher Risk for Serious Health Problems | Impact Lab

• “With most planned caesareans carried out at 39 weeks, the finding raises concerns that women who have the operation for non-medical reasons could unwittingly be endangering the health and prospects of their children.”

  Babies Born One Week Early Are at Higher Risk for Serious Health Problems | Impact Lab

• “Caveat: Children with idiopathic toe walking gait had a higher incidence of interventions at birth, such as emergency caesareans.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Losing Baby Fat Lowers Heart Risks Later

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