-=> Quoting Danny Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 01-19-07  13:25 <=-

 DC>> Natural childbirth is still safer.  
 
Only if it is an elective C-section for convenience sake.  The stats
seem to tell a different story, but that is partly because C-sections
done in emergencies are already a delivery at higher risk.  Most of
those children would have certainly died at birth without the
intervention... 

 NB>> I suspect that some of the mortality may be because they are trying to
 NB>> save younger fetuses that would otherwise have never made it.  But I
 NB>> wouldn't be surprised to find that some of them could be from birthing
 NB>> too early, on ones that are done for convenience rather than need. 

 DC> The main reason caesariens are up is for convenience of the mother. 
 
That's not really true.  Mother's convenience is only one of the
reasons.  Doctor's convenience is another.  Both of those are specious
from my point of view.  But there are valid reasons for it as well, such
as knowing that the baby is too big to birth naturally safely due to
known complications for the mother, or knowing that the baby is in a
bad position and that there is little or no hope of moving into the
proper position, and even more, having the baby go into distress during
labor and delivery itself.  The main reason caesarians are up is that
there are more of the valid complications being caught in time to save
the baby by doing the caesarian than there used to be.  And that is
probably raising the rate of successful natural deliveries as well.

 NB>> PS  the tagline just reminded me...  Did you get my reply netmail from
 NB>> FidoTel yet?  It looks as though it might not have left the bbs.   neb

 DC> You're netmail still hasn't made it here.  

Hmmm...  I thought I did it right, not sure whether the problem is on my
end or his, then...

Anyway, the gist of it was that Frank S is still around, just seems to
be posting less frequently, and in spurts...   (more like us, and not
his usual daily any more )

ttyl         neb

... If absolutely everything goes wrong ... take a nap.

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