Usually your cervix will open up naturally on its own once you’re ready to go into labor. But if your cervix shows no signs of dilating and effacing (softening, opening, thinning) to allow your baby ...

Inducing labor in healthy women at 39 weeks into their pregnancy reduces the need for cesarean section and is at least as safe for mother and baby as waiting for spontaneous labor. Choosing to induce ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 2020, about 20,000 infants died before reaching their first ...

Childbirth is no walk in the park—no matter how your baby is delivered. There is a stigma around Cesarean deliveries, or c-sections, that incorrectly assumes they are “the easy way out,” but that is ...

Despite the low number of vaginal births among patients who have previously had cesarean sections, Kentucky providers ...

A Suwon court ordered a hospital to compensate a family after doctors refused to perform a C-section during a difficult ...

Researchers suggest an association between cesarean sections during labor and recurrent preterm birth or mid-trimester loss in subsequent pregnancies, potentially due to cervical damage Study: ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 63% of transplant recipients had a cesarean delivery vs. 26% of women without a transplant. Among ...

Let’s face it: reading medical studies from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is about as thrilling as watching paint dry. So, when The New York Times dropped its bombshell summary that ...