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[Current (2009) cesarean rates in the UK (where Walker's study was conducted) sit at 25% while c-section rates in the United States have skyrocketed to 37% (up from 32% in 2007). Canada's cesarean rate is at 28%. 35 years ago the U.S. and Canada shared a 5% c-section rate and just 20 years ago the UK still had a low 5% c-section rate.]
Ritual Mutilations by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
[2009] C-Sections Cause Infertility or Emotional Trauma for 1 in 3 Women
Cesarian Birth and Relationships by Sondra Ray and Bob Mandell
The Emotional Ramifications of Being born in a Caesarean Delivery by Amy Lauren ShapiraObstetrics and Gynaecology (OB/GYN)
[2011 Oct] Now all women have the right to NHS caesareans in hugely expensive move
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In 2001, Cesarean section is still the most common OB/GYN
surgical procedure. Approximately 4 million births occur annually, with a 24%
C-Section rate, i.e., 960,000 operations. In the Netherlands only 8% of babies
are delivered by Cesarean section. Assuming human babies are similar in the U.S.
and in the Netherlands, we are performing 640,000 unnecessary C-Sections in
the U.S. with its three to four times higher mortality and 20 times greater
morbidity than vaginal delivery. The
Cesarean section rate was only 4.5% in the U.S. in 1965. By 1986 it had climbed
to 24.1%. The author states that obviously an “uncontrolled pandemic of
medically unnecessary Cesarean births is occurring.”106 VanHam reported a
Cesarean section postpartum hemorrhage rate of 7%, a hematoma formation rate of
3.5%, a urinary tract infection rate of 3%, and a combined postoperative
morbidity rate of 35.7% in a high-risk population undergoing Cesarean section.
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by Medicine----Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, Martin Feldman, MD, Gary Null, PhD, Debora
Rasio, MD (2003/4)
For more information on the statistics and implications of c-section also
see:
International Cesarean Awareness Network
Born in the USA by Dr. Marsden Wagner
Pushed by Jennifer Block
The Caesarean by Dr. Michel Odent
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Dr. Sarah Buckley
Birth & Breastfeeding by Dr. Michel Odent
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
The Thinking Woman's Guide to Better Birth by Henci Goer