From a recent article in USA Today:
"Childbirth is the leading reason for hospitalization in the USA and one of the top reasons for outpatient visits, yet much maternity care consists of high-tech procedures that lack scientific evidence of benefit for most women, a report says today."
Currently, one-third of births in the United States is a c-section (the cesarean rate at our local hospital is currently just over 40%), and I would venture to say that nearly 50% of hospital births are started by induction. Interventions in childbirth seem to increase every year, and it is important to ask -- Are births getting safer?
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Sometimes I am thankful to have an 'old school' doctor...and small town hospital. I was given a lot of grief for choosing him, but in the end I didn't have the problems (or C-Section) as a few others I know did going with a bigger hospital. My friend was induced simply because her doctor wanted to make sure HE was the one who delivered her baby.
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