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.

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 ...

But, the doctors just couldn’t get the baby to budge and she needed a cesarean section to deliver him. “I was prepped for a C-section essentially,” the 36-year-old social worker in ...

My cesarean section patients usually go home on post-op day #2 and the use of opiate medications by my patients has significantly decreased,” said Dr. Jamie Lipeles of Marina Obstetrics and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2022, there were 1,178,066 C-section deliveries, which amounted to roughly 32% of all births in the U.S., according to the data.