Nevada City CA c -sections for everyone?

Are you considering a cesarean delivery in Nevada City CA? The best scientific studies show that the optimum cesarean rates for mothers and children are somewhere between 5 and 10% for the general population. Rates above 15% do more harm than good. Astonishingly, 1 in 3 childbirths in this country are currently cesarean births! This is a dramatic rise from a rate of 4.5% in 1965. Why? An excellent article outlines the primary reasons:

• Low priority of enhancing women's own abilities to give birth
• Side effects of common labor interventions (such as drugs like pitocin and procedures like fetal monitoring).
• Refusal to offer the informed choice of vaginal birth
• Casual attitudes about surgery and cesarean sections in particular
• Limited awareness of harms that are more likely with cesarean section
• Providers' fears of malpractice claims and lawsuits
• Incentives to practice in a manner that is efficient for providers

It has its place in Nevada City CA

Cesarean, like many surgical interventions has its place, but we have reached an unacceptably high level of C-sections--a level that conflicts with our own research on the subject. I encourage mothers-to-be to research carefully methods of childbirth. To my knowledge, the midwife system used in Holland is the best in the world. They use a rational approach: non-complicated births are performed with the help of a midwife in a non-hospital setting, but near a hospital in case of complications. We need to remember that pregnancy is not a disease that requires surgical treatment!