Over the next two millennia, the story goes, that surgical method for birthing a child would come to bear the Roman emperor's name: the cesarean section, spelled caesarean in the U.K., and ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cesarean section (C-section) is the most common operation performed on women of reproductive age worldwide, totaling an estimated one in three U.S. births. A recent study ...

My C-section was simply the intervention that had been necessary; now it was just a set of physical inconveniences ... the “unnatural” quality of the cesarean has made it both miraculous ...

with a first cesarean increasing risks in subsequent pregnancies, increasing likelihood of a second C-section, and increasing complications in that second cesarean," Schummers said by email.

What to know about the new research on C-sections. — -- A new study found that women who undergo a cesarean section delivery may have an increased risk of complications when undergoing a ...

By Sarah Kliff Obstetricians are more likely to give Black women unnecessary cesarean sections ... “If you have an operating room set up to do a C-section, they like to keep that busy too.” ...

Lynlee and Lydia were delivered via cesarean, or C-section, at 32 weeks gestatation ... yesterday that she learned she was having a second set of identical twins.