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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Pregnant Women and C-Sections
In 2004, the latest data available, 29.1 percent of the nation's 4 million births were by Caesarean. That's the highest rate ever recorded, a 40 percent rise since 1996... even among first-time mothers considered at very low risk for childbirth problems, the Caesarean rate is rising among every age group from 21 percent of low-risk women under age 30, to 47 percent of those over age 40... How many were pre-planned solely at the mother's request? The government figures can't say. A handful of recent studies that examined birth certificates and insurance claims estimate that roughly 80,000 women a year have elective C-sections.
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