A third of babies born in the U.S. are delivered by cesarean section, and researchers estimate that about half of those surgeries are medically unnecessary. A number of hospitals have taken steps to ...

Caesarean sections, while life-saving, are major surgeries, not minor ones, and recovery is faster than often believed. Doctors don't always decide delivery methods early; vaginal birth is encouraged.

Diana Burdette has dim memories of her first son, Azriel, being born two years ago — she had a cesarean section and did not see or hold her child for many hours after the surgery. It made it difficult ...

The caesarean section also called C-Section is a surgical procedure to aid the delivery of a baby. The fascinating history of caesarean deliveries goes back to historic times. The word "Cesarean" ...

Five cheetah cubs are receiving critical care after veterinarians decided to perform a rare C-section birth on their five-year-old mother last week. The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden welcomed the ...

In a recording of the hearing obtained by ProPublica, the laboring patient Cherise Doyley called it “the craziest thing I’ve ...

A New York state lawmaker wants changes in medical oversight after learning of a botched C-section procedure uncovered by the News 4 I-team. "Certainly we need to get more facts about what happened ...

The CDC also tracks maternal and infant health characteristics, and found that the rate of C-section deliveries is the ...

No matter where a family lives, welcoming a baby into the world can be a joyous occasion – yet how a woman experiences birth varies drastically from country to country. The number of births by ...