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Lesson From Ivory Coast: How to Give Birth During a War

Two weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could become another tragic footnote in Ivory Coast's bloody conflict. Instead, her story -- with its twist ending -- turned out to be something O. Henry might have written, with a title about two bags of Type O negative blood and details about scary...

Spanish Moms-to-Be Rush to Give Birth Before 2011

MADRID -- Spanish moms-to-be have until midnight tonight to give birth if they want to collect a $3,300 check from the government. With an average of just over one child per couple, Spain has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, and an aging population. In an effort to boost numbers, the government introduced child...

Vaginal Births After C-Sections? New Guidelines Say OK

(July 22) -- A vaginal birth is often a safe option for women who've previously given birth, even twice, by cesarean section. That's the conclusion of a new set of guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The advice runs counter to what many obstetricians once recommended: that women...

Doctors Disciplined for Baby-Free C-Section

(April 2) -- Two North Carolina doctors have been disciplined, but not suspended from practicing medicine, following an investigation into a 2008 cesarean section that they performed on a woman who wasn't even pregnant. The woman and her husband walked into the Cape Fear Medical Center in Fayetteville, N.C., and asked for...

Background on C section

A Caesarean section, (also C-section, Caesarian section, Cesarean section, Caesar, etc.) is a surgical procedure in which one or more incisions are made through a mother's abdomen (laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) to deliver one or more babies, or, rarely, to remove a dead fetus.

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