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WHO Admits: There Is No Evidence For Recommending A 10-15% Caesarean Limit From Medical News Today October 29, 2009 The World Health Organization has finally updated its 1985 recommendation on caesarean rates, admitting that "no empirical evidence for an optimum percentage" exists, an "optimum rate is unknown," and world regions may now "set their own standards." READ MORE Does It? Really? “WHO Admits: There Is No Evidence for Recommending a 10-15% Caesarean Limit” By Henci Goer (her response to the article above) October 30, 2009 "This is the title of a Medical News Today piece, actually a re-posting of a press release from a coalition of websites that promote elective cesarean surgery. The press release claims that the 2009 edition of the WHO’s “Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook” has rescinded its 1985 recommendation that cesarean rates not exceed 10-15%. Can this be true? Not so much. In fact, not at all." READ MORE |
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Looking at these, I feel shaky and nauseous, but I realized this amazing person expressed everything I did feel, and am still feeling, about my 2 cesareans. The one that hit me the hardest was the one titled "Smile, you have a healthy baby." The painting is haunting. |
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The Trouble With Repeat Cesareans |
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By Pamela Paul February 19, 2009 For many pregnant women in America, it is easier today to walk into a hospital and request major abdominal surgery than it is to give birth as nature intended. Jessica Barton knows this all too well. At 33, the curriculum developer in Santa Barbara, Calif., is expecting her second child in June. But since her first child ended up being delivered by cesarean section, she can't find an obstetrician in her county who will let her even try to push this go-round. Read more |
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by Danielle Friedman "Last month, after weeks of fighting with her local hospital, a seven-months-pregnant Arizona mom made the personal public when she created a sort of mobile picket sign—declaring on the back windshield of her purple minivan that being forced to have a Caesarean section is akin to sexual assault. " READ MORE |
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Babies scarred as they're born: |
With thousands of infants injured each year due to Caesarean births, why are mothers not warned of risks?
By Tanith CareyMatthew Watson is only two years old, but already he has what his mother Wendy calls 'a war wound' - a 3 1/2in scar which runs from his eyebrow up to his hairline. It is the legacy of an accident during his Caesarean birth when a surgeon dropped a surgical instrument on his head. An isolated case? Far from it - Matthew is one of an estimated 3,000 newborns injured during the procedure every year in the UK, and with the Caesarean rate rising, it is likely the number affected will also increase. Read more: |
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