Whether Colorado mothers get cesarean sections can vary widely by hospital The state overall has a low rate of surgical deliveries, but individual hospitals’ rates ranged from 1 in 10 to 1 in 3 ...

Some women choose an elective cesarean delivery because it allows them to skip the pain and uncertain timing of natural labor. A C-section is medically necessary when complications develop such as ...

According to legend, somewhere in the lands of the Roman Republic, some time around 100 B.C.E., a man named Gaius Julius Caesar (perhaps you've heard of him) was brought into the world by being ...

The World Health Organization has considered the ideal rate for C-section births to be between 10% to 15%. The U.S. rate is 31%.

Babies born by cesarean section may have an increased risk of being hospitalized with infections, a new study suggests. The analysis, published in PLOS Medicine, used data on 7,174,787 singleton ...

After a classical cesarean, she will be at high risk of uterine rupture during any future pregnancy if she labors – a life-threatening event for both the mother and child.

Rates of cesarean deliveries, or C-sections, have risen in the developed world to more than 20 percent of births, even though the World Health Organization recommends this surgery only for the ...

This is called a low-transverse C-section. If the cut goes up and down, it is called a "classic C-section." Most of the time, C-sections are done when labor is not proceeding normally.

Cesarean section was performed in 20 cases (8 per cent), in 4 of them for severe abruption. In 5 cases section was done on patients with severe toxemia who developed eclampsia post partum; in 15 ...

She was digitalized, and when her condition seemed satisfactory, a classic cesarean section with sterilization was done under local anesthesia. The baby weighed 3 pounds, 7 ounces.