Optional Caesareans Carry Higher Risks, Study Finds

http://www.bcbs.com/news/national/optional-caesareans-carry-higher-risks-study-finds.html

Caesarean sections performed without a medical reason result in longer hospital stays, higher costs and more than twice as many rehospitalizations as vaginal deliveries, a new study reports.

Kate Winslet Speaks of Cesarean Experience

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,3605,1175608,00.html

'I was so completely traumatised by the fact that I hadn't given birth'

Kate Winslet has admitted that having her first child by caesarean made her feel a failure. Lucy Atkins knows exactly what she means

Tuesday March 23, 2004
The Guardian

Rehospitalization a Risk After Planned Cesarean

Dr. Marsden Wagner Speaks on "Born in the USA"

Dr. Wagner is one of the featured guest speakers at the ICAN Conference!


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Born in the U.S.A.

GELLERMAN: For most of his career Dr. Marsden Wagner was your typical
American OB/GYN. A baby doctor; delivering his share of the four
million babies that are born each year in the United States.

Ninety-nine percent of those births take place in hospitals. That's
the way it should be, thought Dr. Wagner until he became the Director
of Women and Children's Health at the World Health Organization and
began to travel to places where midwives do the job.

What he saw changed his life.