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Catherine Pearson

C-Sections Not Always Best For Preemies

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 02.15.2012

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Cesarean sections may not be best for preterm babies who are small for their gestational age, a new study found. It suggests than those infants have n...

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C-sections and Pre-term Births on the Decline -- Is There a Link?

Adam Wolfberg, M.D. | Posted 01.21.2012

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Adam Wolfberg, M.D.

The c-section rate in the U.S. actually declined in 2010 from the previous year (from 32.9 percent to 32.8 percent) for the first time in a decade, and the preterm birth rate dropped for the fourth straight year to 12 percent.

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Oh, Boy: Giant Baby Born In California

Posted 11.16.2011

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Move over, Glen Davis: the Boston Celtics player's nickname, "Big Baby," might well be stolen by a California newborn. Matthew Anthony Maldanado we...

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Scientists Expect C-Section Rate To Keep Rising

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — More women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future, government scientists said Monday, releasing a study into the ...

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Is Refusing a C-Section Child Abuse?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Amie Newman

The impact of not only our ignorance about birth but our desire to control what we don't know or don't understand, serves no one.

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Concerned About Coerced Abortions? Try Saying No to Cesarean Surgery

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lynn M. Paltrow

The rise in cesarean surgery rates has not been accompanied by overall improvements in maternal or child health and creates risks to pregnant women and babies that do not exist with vaginal births.

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