One mom called the "gentle" C-section experience "amazing." — -- When Tara Martinez gave birth to her second child, she was able to watch the birth and have immediate skin-to-skin contact with ...

C-sections can save lives, but sometimes they're not needed, WHO says. — -- Stephanie Dulli knew she needed a cesarean section shortly after learning that her unborn son was in a "jackknifed" ...

A cesarean section, or C-section, is a planned or emergency surgical procedure to remove puppies directly from a pregnant dog’s uterus. While the procedure can save the puppies or the mother dog’s ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." During her son’s birth via C-section in May, Jenna Jonaitis watched her baby come out of her body. She ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A study testing fecal transplantation for babies born by cesarean section found that 42% of mothers carried ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 63% of transplant recipients had a cesarean delivery vs. 26% of women without a transplant. Among ...

A new study published in Psychiatry Research indicates that the observed link between cesarean sections and mental disorders ...

For 28-year-old Andree from the Republic of Congo, the birth of her twins was more than a joyful arrival of new life — it was ...

Inducing labor in healthy women at 39 weeks into their pregnancy reduces the need for cesarean section and is at least as safe for mother and baby as waiting for spontaneous labor. Choosing to induce ...

Doctors are more likely to subject pregnant Black women to unnecessary cesarean deliveries than pregnant white women, particularly when operating rooms are sitting empty, according to research ...

All along, Julia Maeda knew she wanted to have her baby naturally. For her, that meant in a hospital, vaginally, without an epidural for pain relief. This was her first pregnancy. And although she is ...

In a recently published review article from Lund University in the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and ...