C-sections

_C-sections can be lifesaving but women should understand how to reduce their chances of needing one - because next pregnancies tend to end in C-section, too, and repeat C-sections increase hemorrhage risk.

SFGate: Top News Stories By LAURAN NEERGAARD 2010

The World Health Organization estimates that 15 percent of births are obstructed, yet only 4 percent of women in most African countries get C-sections.

Kate Grant: Tale Of Two Mothers Kate Grant 2011

Since its founding, Just Like My Child Foundation and Bishop Asili Hospital have been providing pre-natal care and education and most emergency obstetrical interventions, including C-sections, ultrasound diagnosis, infrastructure for blood supply and AIDS treatment and medical staff to care for post-partum mother and child.

Vivian Glyck: Pregnant in Uganda Vivian Glyck 2011

Since its founding, Just Like My Child Foundation and Bishop Asili Hospital have been providing pre-natal care and education and most emergency obstetrical interventions, including C-sections, ultrasound diagnosis, infrastructure for blood supply and AIDS treatment and medical staff to care for post-partum mother and child.

Vivian Glyck: Pregnant in Uganda Vivian Glyck 2011

You may even be interested to see how Washington state uses science and public input to slow the rate of C-sections, overuse of brand drugs with generic alternatives, unnecessary emergency rooms visits, use of expensive radiology, preventable hospital readmissions and mental-health medication use in children.

Washington State Is Treating Health Care Rationally 2011

Pam Udy of the International Cesarean Awareness Network blames the continuing increase in surgical deliveries in part on the decline in vaginal births after C-sections.

Unmarried women boost record '07 U.S. birth rate 2009

If untreated, the mother's high blood sugar can make the fetus grow too large, leading to C-sections and early deliveries.

Diabetes in pregnancy a risk for mom years later 2011

The World Health Organization estimates that 15 percent of births are obstructed, yet only 4 percent of women in most African countries get C-sections.

Kate Grant: Tale Of Two Mothers Kate Grant 2011

Formula should exist the way antibiotics and C-sections should exist.

Shame And The Mom: A Boob Story | Her Bad Mother 2009

I'm not a medical expert, but if all those C-sections were medically necessary, it would stand to reason that had those surgeries not been performed, those mothers and babies would have suffered disastrous medical consequences.

Cara McDonough: I Don't Care How My Baby Is Born Cara McDonough 2011