C-Section

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cesarean section- delivery of an infant through incisions in the abdominal and uterine walls, p.74 HGD Chapter 3, pp.74-76 =Examples:= This picture shows how a baby would be born through a c-section. This is what a a c-section would look like once the scar has healed around a years time.

=Analogies:= An analogy a women who had a c section told was she didn't feel like she gave birth. she felt like she was in a car accident, had surgery, then somebody handed her a baby.

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Babies delivered by Caesarean section may have an increased risk of obesity by age 3, a new study has found.

Among 1,255 women recruited in early pregnancy for the study, 284 gave birth by Caesarean section. By age 3, 15.7 percent of those children were obese (with a body mass index in the 95th percentile or greater), compared with 7.5 percent of those delivered vaginally.

Mothers who delivered by Caesarean were on average heavier than those who delivered vaginally, and they breast-fed less. But after controlling for these and other maternal health and socioeconomic factors, the scientists found that Caesarean delivery was associated with a doubling of the odds of obesity in these children. Whether the Caesarean was planned or an emergency delivery made no difference.

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(NaturalNews) The c-section rate in the United States continues to climb, a phenomenon increasingly attributed to impatience on the part of women and doctors.

The rate of women delivering by c-section had increased to 31.8 percent by 2007, with a further increase to 32.3 percent in 2008, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This marks a stunning 50 percent increase just since 1996. Looking for more information on what specific factors are correlated with c-sections, researchers analyzed the electronic records from 228,668 deliveries at 19 US hospitals between 2002 and 2007. This was necessary because birth certificates, the normal source of information for birth statistics, include very little information about labor and delivery. The c-section rate among the births studied was 30.5 percent. The c-section rate was twice as high among women whose labor was induced as among women whose labor began naturally.

A full 44 percent of women who attempted vaginal delivery ended up having their labor pharmaceutically induced

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