*** Quoting Danny Ceppa from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 CS> And child as well as mother deaths are down almost the same amount.
DC>  
DC> The U.S.  infant mortality rate is on the rise for the first time sinc
DC> according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  In 2001,
DC> infant mortality rate was 6.8 deaths per 1,000 live births _ in 2002,
DC> rose to 7.0. (2003 data is not yet complete.) 

So did you match that with age of mother for first birth and the *equal* in
¨1968?  Or did you just spot a stat that matches what you want to think? 
Did ¨you match maternal death with child death or ignore it as if the
mother was ¨irrelevant?

Think Dan, think.

DC>  
 DC> And, infant mortality for cesaerians is twice as great than that for
 DC> a natural childbirths.  

 CS> Butnot caused by thge cesearians.  The child's status more often
 CS> determines that than the mother's.  IE:  High risk babies almost
 CS> always delivered that way. 
 CS> Statstics have to be looked at closely before they mean anything.

DC> The fact is, infant mortality rates for cesaerian births.  

The fact is high risk babies die at a far higher rate and now, we save more
of ¨them than before due to cesarians.  We also have more 'high risk ones'
because ¨women are delaying that first child til they are 30 and over.
                                       xxcarol

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