Having a C-section? Everything You Need to Know About The Delivery Procedure Pregnancy calls for a lot of decisions and one of the most important one is the deliver process, here is everything you ...

When we offer a cesarean delivery to women, we do so after weighing the risks and benefits to both the mother and the neonate inherent to the procedure. For example, among women with a breech ...

Doctors recommend C-sections when a baby is turned the wrong way, to mothers who've already had a C-section, and in other specific circumstances. The two stages of the procedure — 5 to 15 ...

More often, pregnant women are looking for ways to make a possible C-section delivery as natural as possible — whether by mothers pulling their own babies out of their abdomens to researchers ...

A Cesarean delivery is a surgical delivery. This involves using a surgical instrument that cuts through the skin of the abdomen, then another incision to open the uterus.

Among women who delivered by C-section, 68.9 percent conceived within the next three years, compared with 76.7 percent of women who delivered vaginally.

Record numbers of American mothers are opting to give birth through C-section, even when there is no clear medical need. The National Institutes of Health held a conference to determine the risks ...