"According to WHO, 28 countries—including Croatia, Ireland, Kuwait, and Portugal—have lower maternal mortality rates [than the United States]. Forty-one countries have lower infant mortality rates."
"Even in an elective cesarean, a woman is almost three times more likely to die than in a vaginal birth. Beyond the immediate health risks, having a C-section decreases a woman's chance to become pregnant again and doubles the risk of an unexplained stillbirth in later pregnancies. In 2 to 6 percent of cesareans, a doctor accidentally cuts into a baby. Babies born from an elective C-section are twice as likely as babies born vaginally to end up in neonatal intensive care."
From this article in the Utne Reader.
Warning: The article opens with a disturbing birth tragedy.
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1 comments:
Oh that's ok... not clicking the article. Thanks anyway. Those stats are sad. So many friends (and just people I chance to know) have years of trouble with their child's health and a few have years of trouble with their own health.
A friend of mine was able to welcome her niece because her sister elected to have a C (ugh). The fact that the entire clan was there was a fun planned activity for all. Maybe (probably) the OB insisted on the big C. Ok as long as things go well, and the definition of "well" depends on the person's perspective who's telling it. Short of death and neonatal ICU is usually what's meant by well.
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