No matter how you choose to do it, there's one thing that no-one will debate you on: Childbirth is hard. After all, it is ...

Despite these risks, C-section rates have been climbing steadily in the United States over the past few decades. Alarmingly, Black women are disproportionately affected by this trend.

C-section childbirth presents a unique set of health challenges for women, ranging from immediate physical pain to long-term psychological and reproductive concerns.

The national C-section rate for first-time mothers with full-term, head-down, single pregnancies, known as Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex (NTSV) births, stands at 25.3%, significantly higher ...

But he was already full, so an elective C-section wasn’t possible before my due date. I understand that C-sections are hardly a walk in the park.

For Cesarean Awareness Month, Andrea Alexander, MD shares reasons more people are having C-sections, and why they're certainly not the "easy," ideal route.

Serena Williams faced life-threatening complications, including a pulmonary embolism, after her daughter's emergency ...

Of mothers who fit the criteria for low risk and who gave birth at Doctors Hospital in 2019, 31 percent had C-sections, McDonald’s analysis found. That was the highest rate of primary C-sections ...

VIJAYAWADA: In an effort to promote natural childbirth and reduce the rising number of C-section (Cesarean section) deliveries, the State government has launched a midwife training initiative in 86 ...

In a statement released Friday, the obstetrics and gynecologists section of Doctors of B.C. sounded the alarm about the ...

The c-section rate for first-time, uncomplicated pregnancies declined by 18.6%, from 29.9 per 1,000 births in 2016 to 24.3 in 2021, the association’s report said.