Almost one-third of births in the U.S. are delivered by cesarean section — or C-section. Surgical births are performed in the hospital, with a medical team present. Gentle C-sections allow you more ...

Congratulations — you’ve delivered your new little miracle by cesarean section! This is not an easy feat. Your doctor may have recommended this delivery method as the healthiest — or only — option for ...

Your experience of a planned C-section may differ from the emergency one. You may find it relieving or full of anxiety. The ...

Cesarean sections to deliver babies are among the most common surgical procedures in U.S. hospitals. A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Black women are almost 25 ...

Is your baby in an awkward position? Is your labor not progressing? Do you have other health concerns? In any of these situations, you might need a cesarean delivery — commonly known as a cesarean ...

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

In case you didn’t know, the month of April is Cesarean Awareness Month. It’s a campaign done to help educate people about both the risks and benefits of surgical births. C-sections for first-time ...

Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno photographed on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno was recently fined almost $90,000 for wrongfully ...

An Alexis wound retractor (AWR) “about the size of a dinner plate” was accidentally left in a woman’s abdomen after giving birth via c-section in 2020 Getty A surgical device “about the size of a ...

A woman in Italy has successfully given birth to a baby while undergoing brain surgery, thanks to a team of doctors from across several disciplines. The procedure happened in the Molinette hospital in ...

Some physicians are doing unnecessary and invasive surgery on pregnant patients “to preserve the appearance of not doing an abortion.” Surgeons performing a “classic cesarean section.” When news that ...

A surgical tool "the size of a dinner plate" was discovered and removed from inside a woman's abdomen 18 months after she had a caesarean section while giving birth to her child, health officials in ...