Caesareans

Babies born after in vitro maturation (IVM) fertility treatment are more likely to be born larger than normal and to have more difficult births requiring more obstetric interventions such as caesareans, a review has suggested. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most Indian doctors say they refuse requests for unnecessary caesareans. ❋ Eric Bellman (2010)

Applied to the increase in decadent caesareans for women who can't even be bothered to have a free orgasm, the paradoxical injunction would require clinicians to tell women to go right ahead and do that, yes, to have their stupid, selfish caesareans, quite guiltlessly, as if it was just as good as a normal birth and the NHS really did not care one way or the other about the appalling waste of money. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Terri is the mother of six; 3 caesareans, 2 VBACs and an adoption. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And 41 per cent of babies are born at between 37 and 39 weeks – a figure that is on the rise, largely because of an increase in nonemergency or elective caesareans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One popular explanation for the rise in caesareans is that clinicians wish, self-servingly, to lower the risk of litigation following deaths or injuries in childbirth. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Caveat: Children with idiopathic toe walking gait had a higher incidence of interventions at birth, such as emergency caesareans. ❋ Ann Lukits (2011)

With most planned caesareans carried out at 39 weeks, the finding raises concerns that women who have the operation for non-medical reasons could unwittingly be endangering the health and prospects of their children. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After three caesareans, meningitis and now this untreatable lymphoma – you haven't really had the better side of the bargain. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The result, if it worked, would be an immediate explosion of disgust from women, of all types and political denominations, which would deplore "the folly of caesarean births for everyone", "the madness of caesareans on demand" and caesareans as a "lifestyle choice", then, for good measure, feature a selection of prominent, Too Much Information-defying victims' stories depicting the hideous truth behind this perversion of consumer choice. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From the health historian Louise Foxcroft, describing maternal-request caesareans as "absurd vanity" and an example of society's "ever-present gynophobia", to Jenni Murray in the Daily Mail, lamenting this extension of maternal choice as a "victory" for the vanity of the "too posh to push brigade", the columnar consensus has been resoundingly of the view that nature knows best. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They recommend planned caesareans for women with medical indications such as the placenta covering the neck of the womb, a twin pregnancy in which one baby doesn't look as if they will be delivered head first and a breech, in which the baby can't be turned. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wouldn't it be great if expectant mums could go to term without having photographs of celebrities, who had early caesareans to avoid the last weeks of "fat", paraded in front of them? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Consider the story of Emily Behrman of Solana Beach, CA, who says she wanted to try to avoid an epidural if the pain of labor turned out to be manageable because she was aware of research showing early epidurals have been linked to increased rates of caesareans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Women who undergo caesareans should take antibiotics an hour before surgery, a doctors 'group recommended. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Currently, women who undergo caesareans often receive antibiotics as a precaution against infection to the abdomen and uterus but usually only after the delivery, when the umbilical cord is clamped, because of concern for the baby's safety. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OB's have been increasing the number of caesareans for two reasons: Increased litigation, and the fact that things are less likely to go wrong in a c-section than a vaginal birth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We're seeing more obese women and that leads to more" caesareans because they are more likely to have other medical conditions that can lead to complications during childbirth, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, says Jacques Moritz, director of gynecology at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"It's the long term complications of multiple caesareans" that people need to be most aware of, Dr. Meyer says. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He says several factors including doctors 'fear of litigation, a growing demand among patients for elective caesareans that aren't medically necessary and more induced labors have contributed to the growing rates of c-sections. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Dave's] dating this cougar. He said she's had five kids, all without a Caesarean section. He swears you can tie her [meat curtains] in a [knot]. ❋ Captain Vimes (2011)

“Look! A caesarean haircut!” “I did it myself with [barber] [clippers].” “That [newborn] looks unreasonably stylish.” “He got a caesarean haircut.” ❋ Bottom Ford, Esq (2010)

Caesarean Compliment: "You are the best [husband] ever" [followed] with [comments], complaints, and criticisms for the next several hours ❋ Safety Lane (2022)