After two days of expert presentations and panel deliberations, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its findings on maternal-request caesarean deliveries: when comparing the risks and benefits of C-sections there is no basis for a recommendation in either direction.
(From NIH Report-See links below.)
While panel members did find reasons to caution against this procedure (complications for subsequent pregnancies increases with each additional Caesarean delivery and an increase in repertory problems in infants), the experts found no clear medical reason to discourage women from choosing this increasingly popular option.
These findings contrast with decades of medical advice aimed at trying to reduce the number of Caesareans, which for years were seen as unnecessary, costly and potentially risky.
More than 1 million of the 4 million babies born each year in the United States are delivered by Caesarean section ? a trend that has been steadily rising since 1996 when the number.
Where once used to deliver babies in situations where the mother or child is experiencing complications that put one or both at risk., women today are looking at this as a way to manage fear of the pain and physical trauma of traditional labor, decrease risk occurrence of loss of sexual ability, and the use the convenience of being able to schedule deliveries to meet their life style.
