c-sections are more risky than natural birth

[dolf]

so says a new study.

where there are no complications, c-sections increase the health risks to both mother and child.


Non-Emergency Cesarean Births Pose Greater Danger For Mothers And Infant

October 31, 2007 10:54 a.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff

London, England (AHN) - According to a study based out of Latin America women having a non-emergency cesarean birth have double the risk of illness or even death compared to a vaginal birth. However, the researchers found cesarean delivery prevented deaths in breech born babies.

Health officials said the risks linked to cesarean births (whether chosen by the woman or her clinicians) are higher, regardless of variables such as demographics, medical and pregnancy history, gestational age of the fetus, pregnancy complications, where the baby is born and the skills of those helping to deliver the baby.

Researchers who published their findings in a Wednesday British Medical Journal report randomly selected eight Latin American countries and from those, 120 also randomly selected health facilities provided complete data on 97,307 deliveries of babies during a three-month study period.

They wanted to compare the risks and benefits of cesarean delivery compared to vaginal delivery. Of the 97,307 cases, 33.7 percent were cesarean and 66.3 percent vaginal. Overall, perinatal outcomes were good in these 120 hospitals, not far from those in developed countries.

According to the report woman having a cesarean delivery had twice the risk of illness and mortality (including death, hysterectomy, blood transfusion and admission to intensive care) as a woman having a vaginal delivery.

There was a five times higher risk of having to have antibiotic treatment after birth for women who had a cesarean delivery (elective or decided by clinicians) than those who had a vaginal delivery.

Risk of having to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit for newborn babies who were born head-first was doubled after a cesarean delivery compared to a vaginal birth.

Researchers working on the study also noted that they found that the risk of neonatal death was also significantly increased (more than 70 percent higher) up to hospital discharge for babies who were born head first from both an elective and a clinician chosen cesarean delivery, compared to a vaginal delivery.

However, health officials generally agree that cesarean delivery had a large protective effect in preventing fetal deaths in cases of breech born babies and reduced overall risks in those cases.

 

[dg]

John Edwards' bank account smiles at the fact his law career is done.

 

[dolf]

John Edwards' bank account smiles at the fact his law career is done.

pardon?

 

[Sean]

It's surgery. ALL surgery is dangerous, no matter how minor.

 

[Sapphire77]

I thought this was already an established fact.
It seems like common sense that surgery would be more risky than a vaginal birth when there are no problems.

 

[dg]

pardon?

John Edwards made his money by going into court on cases with children who had cerebral palsy and suggesting that their doctor should have done a c-section to save the child.

 

[allium]

I thought this was already an established fact.
It seems like common sense that surgery would be more risky than a vaginal birth when there are no problems.

You'd think, wouldn't you? And yet the number of them performed continues to climb.

 

[Sapphire77]

You'd think, wouldn't you? And yet the number of them performed continues to climb.

The C-section rates in the US are a lot higher than European countries, I wonder if it is because of liability fears.

 

[dg]

The C-section rates in the US are a lot higher than European countries, I wonder if it is because of liability fears.

It is. 100%.

 

[allium]

The C-section rates in the US are a lot higher than European countries, I wonder if it is because of liability fears.

Yes.

(That, and the fact that you are all wusses )

 

[somberReality]

so says a new study.

where there are no complications, c-sections increase the health risks to both mother and child.


Non-Emergency Cesarean Births Pose Greater Danger For Mothers And Infant

October 31, 2007 10:54 a.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff

London, England (AHN) - According to a study based out of Latin America women having a non-emergency cesarean birth have double the risk of illness or even death compared to a vaginal birth. However, the researchers found cesarean delivery prevented deaths in breech born babies.

Health officials said the risks linked to cesarean births (whether chosen by the woman or her clinicians) are higher, regardless of variables such as demographics, medical and pregnancy history, gestational age of the fetus, pregnancy complications, where the baby is born and the skills of those helping to deliver the baby.

Researchers who published their findings in a Wednesday British Medical Journal report randomly selected eight Latin American countries and from those, 120 also randomly selected health facilities provided complete data on 97,307 deliveries of babies during a three-month study period.

They wanted to compare the risks and benefits of cesarean delivery compared to vaginal delivery. Of the 97,307 cases, 33.7 percent were cesarean and 66.3 percent vaginal. Overall, perinatal outcomes were good in these 120 hospitals, not far from those in developed countries.

According to the report woman having a cesarean delivery had twice the risk of illness and mortality (including death, hysterectomy, blood transfusion and admission to intensive care) as a woman having a vaginal delivery.

There was a five times higher risk of having to have antibiotic treatment after birth for women who had a cesarean delivery (elective or decided by clinicians) than those who had a vaginal delivery.

Risk of having to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit for newborn babies who were born head-first was doubled after a cesarean delivery compared to a vaginal birth.

Researchers working on the study also noted that they found that the risk of neonatal death was also significantly increased (more than 70 percent higher) up to hospital discharge for babies who were born head first from both an elective and a clinician chosen cesarean delivery, compared to a vaginal delivery.

However, health officials generally agree that cesarean delivery had a large protective effect in preventing fetal deaths in cases of breech born babies and reduced overall risks in those cases.

I disagree. I had 3 c-sections due to breech babies. I think trying breech births would've been a helluva lot more dangerous. Not to mention my vagina is still as tight as it was when i was 16! Oh yeah baby! Take THAT c-section study biatches!!

 

[allium]

I disagree. I had 3 c-sections due to breech babies. I think trying breech births would've been a helluva lot more dangerous. Not to mention my vagina is still as tight as it was when i was 16! Oh yeah baby! Take THAT c-section study biatches!!

If you read the thread, we are talking about c-sections for births without problems. The study actually says that c-sections save the lives of breech babies.

I am very glad that all yours turned out well.

 

[somberReality]

If you read the thread, we are talking about c-sections for births without problems. The study actually says that c-sections save the lives of breech babies.

I am very glad that all yours turned out well.

Got carried away with the whole vagina thing.

Thank you though. (my last c-section was a pregnancy without problems, and everything still worked out fine so i still disagree)

 

[marshalt]

Let's see, normal birthing tools...
http://med.uth.tmc.edu/administration/gme/images/DocHands.gif

c-section birthing tools...
http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/machete-toy.gif


no shit.

 

[marshalt]

Got carried away with the whole vagina thing.

Now you know how a man feels.

 

[somberReality]

Now you know how a man feels.

Haha. Yeah, mine tends to rule my body, kinda like penises right?

 

[dolf]

I disagree. I had 3 c-sections due to breech babies. I think trying breech births would've been a helluva lot more dangerous. Not to mention my vagina is still as tight as it was when i was 16! Oh yeah baby! Take THAT c-section study biatches!!

you quoted the entire fucking post but didn't bother reading it???

 

[RcyMtnGrl]

A Dr offered me the choice with my first pregnacy early in my pregnancy. I laughed at him and had a different Dr by the end of the week. Both mine were vaginal deliveries. If it had been a medical emergency, I'd have had a C-sec, but for no other reason.

 

[dolf]

A Dr offered me the choice with my first pregnacy early in my pregnancy. I laughed at him and had a different Dr by the end of the week. Both mine were vaginal deliveries. If it had been a medical emergency, I'd have had a C-sec, but for no other reason.

here, fortunately, it's still assumed all will be natural unless there are complications.

i walked out of hospital the same day, holding my partners hand while he carried our son to the car. it was great to get home to my daughter, my bed, my home. it was perfect.

 

[~Avalon~]

My first was C due to a medical emergency.
My second, i hoped that i could have vaginal. when i found out i couldn't... i cried. I know it sounds silly, but i felt like i was somehow less than female for not being able to have a vaginal birth. I also cried because i knew what the recovery felt like.

 

[allium]

here, fortunately, it's still assumed all will be natural unless there are complications.

i walked out of hospital the same day, holding my partners hand while he carried our son to the car. it was great to get home to my daughter, my bed, my home. it was perfect.

I had my son at home. It was kind of frowned upon by my midwife and she wasn't that supportive but I loved it.

 

[allium]

My first was C due to a medical emergency.
My second, i hoped that i could have vaginal. when i found out i couldn't... i cried. I know it sounds silly, but i felt like i was somehow less than female for not being able to have a vaginal birth. I also cried because i knew what the recovery felt like.

Poor you. That's the other side of all this that I don't like. I'm pro-natural birth and pro-breastfeeding etc but I hate it when anyone who didn't have those options ends up feeling bad or guilty about it. Especially when it's other women doing that to them. We all do the best we can as mothers and it's tough doing it - we shouldn't beat ourselves or others up over the things we couldn't help.

 

[Mansa Musa]

I disagree. I had 3 c-sections due to breech babies. I think trying breech births would've been a helluva lot more dangerous. Not to mention my vagina is still as tight as it was when i was 16! Oh yeah baby! Take THAT c-section study biatches!!

Once again, I catch you bragging about your tight vagina. You´ll have to renounce that "Lit´s resident prude" title.

 

[somberReality]

you quoted the entire fucking post but didn't bother reading it???

Like you've never done that

 

[skate and fuck]

duh. everyone knows that. Hmmn, pain for 6 hours or a scar for life? Women who get c-sections do it for no other reason than to save the life of their child by avoiding conflicts and complications that there is no other way around. And once you have one, say its on your 1st kid, your more likely to need them with successive children.