Posted on 08/26/2007 6:04:37 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new federal figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe that growing rates of maternal obesity and cesarean sections are partly to blame. --snip-- Some researchers point to the rising C-section rate, now 29 percent of all births nationally - far higher than what public health experts say is appropriate. Like other surgeries, cesareans come with risks related to anesthesia, infections and blood clots.
"There's an inherent risk to C-sections," said Elliott Main, who cochairs a panel reviewing obstetrics care in California. "As you do thousands and thousands of them, there's going to be a price."
I’m sure socialized medicine will solve all of this....
In other words, this supposed "nationwide trend" could be entirely a statistical artifact resulting from a bookkeeping change.
29 percent of all births by c section is crazy. It’s about lawyers ready to sue for anything and doctors not wanting to wait for a natural birth. Time’s money. Bigger bills is the life blood of the medical world.
Bull feathers! Picking the time of delivery is what inducing labor is for. No sane woman “chooses” a C-section so that a baby arrives at a certain time. A woman’s figure is never the same after a c-section. Recovery is longer than from natural birth, and it is certainly more painful.
You must be a man.
The John Edwards dividend.
What else has changed in recent years in the nation's most populous state? That is, how many of these maternal deaths are to foreigners, illegals, or recent legal immigrants—who come here with a variety of health problems not common among Americans?
This may have less to do with C-sections and middle-class white women from New Jersey than might appear from the article. (Not that C-sections don't seem to be over-prescribed.)
A friend of mine is a nurse at a local hospital, and according to her this happens regularly. While I agree with you that it isn't "sane", the number of women who do so is apparently significant.
Well, what do you expect when we are slowing being turned into a turd world country in many parts of the nation.
We get turd world statistics
John Edwards has compassion for the children!
Take a bow, Johnny Edwards, those deaths are on your hands - yours and your ambulance-chasing buddies.
I didn’t know the medical ramifications of induction. But 29 percent still sounds excessive. Lawyers.
Bull feathers yourself! I am a mother to 7 children. Read my post again....with induction comes an increased risk of c-section...do the research! “Picking the time” of delivery is part of the problem. How about women wait until they go into labor instead of thinking they can make things happen when they want them to? Nahhhhh, why wait for nature? it’s all about ME so I’ll force it instead and then wonder why c-sections rates are higher.
That was my first thought too. There will be a lot more articles with this theme between now and the 2008 election. They are just laying the groundwork as to why we “need” Hillary.
Yep. My wife put on sixty pounds in her first pregnancy and the doctors never said a word. In fact, I was chastized by a nurse for even bringing up her weight.
Just before her delivery she was borderline diabetic and hypertensive. No one would address her weight gain.
Well I’m not a man and he’s right. And I’ve known many women who actually preferred CS. I know, that sounds crazy. But I have known them personally and professionally (I worked for an OB/GYN practice for several years)
Women all too often view pregnancy as a distraction and a bother and some doctors allow this practice or bullying, whatever it is.
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