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Obstetrics (Caesarean Delivery)
Women Who Use Midwives Have Fewer Caesarean Deliveries
November 13th, 1995
Women who rely on nurse-midwives to deliver their babies are only half as likely to have Caesarean deliveries, a consumer group reports. While almost 25 percent of U.S. babies are born by C-section, the rate was less than 12 percent for those births attended by nurse-midwives in hospitals, according to a survey by Public Citizen's Health Research Group. And with midwives' help, two in three mothers who previously had C-sections successfully delivered without surgery, the survey indicated. Three quarters of such mothers usually have repeat C-sections. Nurse-midwives attended 185,000 births in the United States in 1992, or almost 5...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-11-13)
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