Health experts are worried about the increasing rate of births that are had by cesarean section. A recent government study shows that about one third of all child deliveries are made by C-section in the United States.
Dr. Jun Zhang, lead researcher for the study noted that the results acquired where “somewhat surprising”. The research took place at some 109 hospitals and involved close to 230,000 deliveries. All the facts of the study have been published in the American journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Links to the higher rate of cesarean section have been made to various possible factors such as: chemically induced labor, increased weight of mothers and child, giving birth later in life and multiple births. It has also been noted by the publication that many hospitals take the stance that once a cesarean section has been performed any others deliveries would be done in the same manner.
The study has noted an over 50 percent increase of c-section since the middle 1900′s.
