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 ...

C-section rates decade high in 2025 as CDC reports U.S. births decline and fertility hits a 25-year low, impacting obstetric service planning.

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 ...

Cherise Doyley was forced to attend a court hearing from her hospital bed — with no legal representation — because she did ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Many first-time mothers have expectations of how they would like their birth experience to go, but it often doesn’t go as planned. They can run into complications, which can ...

Recovering from a major surgery like a C-section is not easy, but for mothers who have young children at home, these challenges are compounded. Finding time to rest and heal can feel impossible at ...

Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital, part of the Rochester Regional Health System, has seen a dramatic decline in cesarean section rates among healthy, first-time mothers — from 40% in 2019 to 25% in ...

The new mom said her mother-in-law had been at the hospital since 45 min before her c-section and had been told no one was meeting the baby that day Getty A new mom was shocked to learn that her ...

"While the harm done to us and trauma inflicted cannot be undone, we want to prevent others from suffering the same," she ...

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 ...