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.

The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem. The trend has been associated with a significant increase in serious maternal ...

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

BENEFITS. BABY DARCY IS ALL SMILES, SNUGGLED IN MOM’S LAP IN THEIR WESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS HOME. HOME IS WHERE MOM EXPERIENCED A HEALING HAND. WE WERE ABLE TO GET HOSPITAL LEVEL CARE, BUT IN THE ...

Local study suggests traumatic childbirths can trigger symptoms of PTSD.

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 ...