Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly one in 10 pregnant women in the US undergoes a cesarean section that experts say could have been avoided. One of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 2016, obstetrician Dr. Jesanna Cooper's practice hired a nurse-midwife to deliver babies at Princeton Baptist ...

On the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2024, Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at University of Florida Health in downtown Jacksonville when a nurse came in with a bedsheet and told her to ...

New research sheds light on the troubling reality that some pregnant women face during childbirth-being forced into C-section deliveries by court order at the request of hospitals.

The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem. The trend has been associated with a significant increase in serious maternal ...

A new program offered by Lutheran Hospital is designed to help mothers ease into postpartum life. The rehabilitation program for mothers of cesareans or traumatic vaginal births was created by Matthew ...

Finley Hospital and the Finley Health Foundation finished renovation work on the Family Birthing Suites’ dedicated C-Section Suite.The $1.4 million renovation e ...

Lutheran Hospital on Monday said it had a 29% drop last year in cesarean births among first-time moms who had babies at the West Jefferson Boulevard location. C-sections can be necessary in some cases ...

In the spring of 2016, obstetrician Dr. Jesanna Cooper's practice hired a nurse-midwife to deliver babies at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. The nurse-midwife was ...

Roughly one in 10 pregnant women in the US undergoes a cesarean section that experts say could have been avoided. One of the strongest predictors of her risk of a medically unnecessary C-section isn't ...