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 ...

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 ...

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 family alleging their baby boy was born in June with severe, permanent brain damage due to a delayed cesarean section at Lovelace Women’s Hospital in Albuquerque filed an amended complaint against ...

Amanda Koop, of Michigan, watched her son being born via cesarean section. A hospital in Michigan is giving birthing parents a new way to stay connected during a cesarean section delivery. Spectrum ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa — UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital and the Finley Health Foundation will soon begin renovations on the Family Birthing Suites’ dedicated C-section suite, with completion expected by ...

BENEFITS. BABY DARCY IS ALL SMILES, SNUGGLED IN MOM’S LAP IN THEIR WESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS HOME. HOME IS WHERE MOM EXPERIENCED A HEALING HAND. WE WERE ABLE TO GET HOSPITAL LEVEL CARE, BUT IN THE ...

How each hospital is run dramatically impacts how many surgeries its doctors perform, and C-section rates can swing wildly from hospital to hospital. To track this, Business Insider analyzed C-section ...