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...Percentage of U.S. births by C-section in 2004, up from...
...that an epidural given too early can slow labor and increase the odds of a caesarean birth. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, found that women who receive an epidural before their cervix is dilated to 4 cm have no greater chance of a C-section than women...
...birth last week, by C-section, of a 3-lb. 3-oz. premature baby girl to a 66-year-old Romanian woman who underwent fertility treatments for nine years may be one for the record books, but it's also Exhibit A in the debate over whether there should be guidelines to govern the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Not only are there no such guidelines for ART clinics in the U.S., according to a study from the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, there is no agreement about how prospective parents should...
...birth certificate of Gwyneth Paltrow's baby, Apple Martin, and some new Hollywood tots with unusual monikers have arrived to deflect the playground taunts. On Nov. 28, after a month of bed rest, JULIA ROBERTS gave birth to a girl and a boy, Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter, by C-section. Roberts, 37, seen here in a glamour shot taken early in her pregnancy for January's W magazine, had the twins with husband DANNY MODER, a cinematographer (at the hospital window, left). Weighing a little more than 5 lbs. each, Hazel and Finn, as his parents plan to call...
...jury award caught the attention of obstetricians everywhere. It and similar cases have contributed to the increased use of caesareans when a fetal-heart monitor indicates even minor signs of trouble. Today more than one-quarter of U.S. births are by C-section (up from 5% in 1970), though fear of malpractice suits is just one factor in the trend. Meanwhile, medical research has been challenging the conventional wisdom that birth trauma was the principal culprit in cerebral palsy. "There seems to be no scientific question that most of that injury [cerebral palsy] occurs prenatally and is not related...