Roughly one in 10 pregnant women in the US undergoes a cesarean section that experts say could have been avoided. One of the strongest predictors of her risk of a medically unnecessary C-section isn't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 2016, obstetrician Dr. Jesanna Cooper's practice hired a nurse-midwife to deliver babies at Princeton Baptist ...

The teamwork at Lutheran Hospital makes mothers and their babies feel supported through the birth experience.

Lutheran Hospital said Monday that it had a 29% drop last year in cesarean births among first-time moms compared to 2024.

Henry Ford West Bloomfield had one of the highest cesarean section birth rates among Michigan’s hospitals in March 2020 through April 2021. The hospital’s C-section rate for low-risk, first-time ...

Cesarean section (C-section) procedures have increased dramatically around the world in the recent decades. Overweight and obesity rates, common risk factors for pregnancy outcomes and for C-sections, ...

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How each hospital is run dramatically impacts how many surgeries its doctors perform, and C-section rates can swing wildly from hospital to hospital. To track this, Business Insider analyzed C-section ...