Recent news on Cesarean Section

Family shares birth of their child  -  25 May 2007
South Brunswick Post,In early September, five weeks before the baby was due, the doctors decided to perform a cesarean section. Ms. Kalet was a high-risk pregnancy,

Mom goes on after husband slain in Iraq  -  25 May 2007
Kansas City Star,...in nearby Holyoke, then six hours of difficult labor before doctors determined that the baby was misaligned and opted for an unplanned cesarean section.

Doctor defends 'bloodless surgery' for babies  -  25 May 2007
Globe and Mail,...testified on the parents' behalf that alternatives to transfusion were available for the twins, who were born by cesarean section May 17 at 25 weeks.

Very Low Birth Weight Infants Better Off At Large Medical Centers  -  25 May 2007
News Locale,Furthermore better obstetrical care was available at large hospitals, which meant women were able to receive rapid emergency cesarean section when required,

C-Section Rate Doubles As Alternative Birth Option  -  May 15, 2007
MyFox Kansas City,Nearly one in three births in America is by cesarean section. The c-section rate has doubled just in the last decade. Tammy Moss had an emergency c-section

Daphne woman dies days after giving birth to son  -  May 24, 2007
AL.com,Tate, a Point Clear native and Press-Register carrier, was scheduled to have a Cesarean section May 25, but that changed when an ambulance responded May 14

Cesarean for quick buck?  -  Apr 27, 2007
Moneycontrol.com,In many parts of urban India, women having cesarean section deliveries seems to be the norm and those having normal deliveries almost seem to be an

New Jersey woman, 60, gives birth to twins  -  May 24, 2007
Denver Post,Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to "Baby A" at 12:44 pm and "Baby B" a minute later by cesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center,

Measure to properly register father-baby relation takes effect ...  -  May 21, 2007
Asahi Shimbun,She delivered the baby by Cesarean section on Dec. 30, 292 days after her divorce. The baby could not leave the hospital for about two months.

Achievements in the news  -  May 24, 2007
Detroit Free Press,Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to Baby A at 12:44 pm and Baby Ba minute later by cesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman

Maternity care advocates plan rally in Woodbury  -  May 17, 2007
The Gloucester County Times,...have planned a rally here today in response to the recent deaths of two new mothers who delivered by cesarean section at Underwood-Memorial Hospital.

Saving a Life Together  -  May 10, 2007
Thousand Oaks Acorn,After a brief update, he gives the orders I'm expecting, "Bring her back for a STAT Cesarean Section. I'm on my way in." As I'm pushing her bed back to the

Giving birth by cesarean increases placenta-related risks  -  May 2, 2007
South Asian Women's Forum,..."More than 1% of pregnancies with a prior cesarean section had one of these events, which had a 50% increase compared to women without previous cesarean

Appeals Court upholds $530K malpractice award against UMC  -  May 23, 2007
Biloxi Sun Herald,17, 1999, for a cesarean section. Easter gave birth to a healthy daughter but began to have difficulty breathing and suffered from elevated blood pressure.

Kidney donation is right thing to do, woman says  -  May 23, 2007
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner,He compares the surgery to a cesarean section. The only adjustment he has had to make is that he must avoid certain over-the-counter medications,

Sextuplets have roots in the local community  -  May 23, 2007
East Central Minnesota Post Review,May) and doctors hope she can continue the pregnancy for another 10 weeks after that. A cesarean section is planned once she reached 30 weeks in late July.

Health Scan  -  May 19, 2007
Jerusalem Post,Women who prefer to deliver their babies by cesarean section rather than normal vaginal birth - not for medical reasons but "convenience" or "less pain"

Rockland hospitals make the grade  -  Apr 28, 2007
White Plains Journal News,Good Samaritan Hospital might be a good choice for women who want to avoid a cesarean section or anyone having a stroke. Nyack Hospital does well at

Natural-Birth Centers In US Pulling Down The Shutters  -  May 18, 2007
MedIndia,...physician conjures up unwelcome images of being strapped to machines, talked out of natural childbirth or talked into a non-emergency Cesarean section.

Judge denies motion to dismiss second murder charge against Tyrone ...  -  May 22, 2007
Kannapolis Independent Tribune,Cummings said records show Tara Chambers died about 5:45 am, and the baby was born by cesarean section about 32 minutes later.

Modern Maternity  -  Apr 30, 2007
Baltimore Magazine,It is exactly a week to the day before her scheduled cesarean section, and she is filled with anticipation. This delivery, she suspects—and hopes—will be

Czech midwives claim they are not allowed to do their job  -  May 16, 2007
Radio Prague,So there would not be any need to perform a Cesarean section within minutes as doctors tell us." Obstetricians are extremely critical of the home-births

Miracle of life or a nuisance?  -  May 14, 2007
China Daily,The decision to broadcast video footage of a woman giving birth by cesarean section in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province, has divided the

MERCY! 14lbs. 5oz. BABY  -  May 14, 2007
Amherst Times.com,Baby Evan was delivered by cesarean section by Dr. August Bruno who said, "Good thing I had eaten my Wheaties in the morning to hand the baby off to the

Mom and her special twins celebrate by picking berries  -  May 13, 2007
Virginian Pilot,But both babies survived, born at 32 weeks via cesarean section. They spent one month in intensive care before Michael was released and Nicholas went to

A Thousand Splendid Suns  -  May 20, 2007
About - News & Issues,Consider this one horrific example as Laila endures a Cesarean section in a Taliban hospital without anesthetic:. (The female doctor) bent over Laila.

Home birth gets closer look in documentary  -  May 3, 2007
ReutersLake and premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, provides a graphic look at home births as well as cesarean-section births in hospitals.

Two-headed girl born in Vietnam  -  May 11, 2007
RIA Novosti,Doctors expected twins, but after the Cesarean section they extracted a single child with two heads, two necks, two spines, but with two kidneys, one heart,

2 Teachers Connected By Birth, Death  -  May 10, 2007
CBS 3,Both women were pregnant and died 15 days apart in March and April after delivering by cesarean section at Underwood Memorial Hospital in Woodbury,

Necessity is indeed the mother of all inventions, claims city doctor  -  Apr 30, 2007
Mumbai Newsline,...from the obstetrician and gynecology department at the hospital, is the first to have invented such a device for trans peritoneal cesarean section.

Charlotte Church Determined To Give Natural Birth  -  May 9, 2007
Starpulse.com,...first child with her rugby ace boyfriend, Gavin Henson in September, but she wants to shun the celebrity trend to pre-arrange cesarean section births.

Raja Bell welcomes his champion son  -  May 6, 2007
Celebrity Baby Blog,His wife, Cindy, gave birth to the couple's first child, son Dia, at 1:30 that afternoon following a Cesarean section. I was holding her hand and rubbing

Report finds hospitals in NY improving  -  Apr 30, 2007
Ithaca Journal,The report scores hospitals on 33 procedures, ranging from frequency of Cesarean-section baby deliveries to volume of coronary-bypass operations to

Midwifery suffers as hospitals close maternity units  -  May 15, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer,Chestnut Hill has had one of the lower cesarean-section surgery rates in the city, and it is the only hospital left in the city with private-practice

Delighted Felipe and Letizia present new daughter Sofia  -  May 4, 2007
hellomagazine.com,...and with ribbons at her wrists, slept soundly in the arms of her mum, who was the picture of health after giving birth on Sunday by cesarean section.

Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God" Diamond Skull  -  May 18, 2007
Luxist,The show also will include two new series of works by Hirst: "Fact Paintings", which depicts the birth of the artist's son by cesarean section,

Public gets peek at larger, high-tech newborn intensive care unit  -  May 7, 2007
Shreveport Times,Anna Bryant said her grandson, Isaiah Bryant, landed in the old NICU because he swallowed amniotic fluid while doctors were performing a cesarean section.

Bryant, James dismiss study citing ref bias  -  May 3, 2007
Charlotte Observer,Cindy Bell gave birth to a boy by Cesarean section at 1:30 pm Wednesday. TORONTO: With their top two point guards injured, rest is the Raptors' top priority

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