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Recovering from a C-section? Expert explains how to heal faster

From surgical wounds to potential infections, blood clots, and complications, the road to recovery is never easy with a ...
University of Utah Health

A Safer, Easier Postpartum Recovery: One Mom’s Experience with Heal at Home

A postpartum mom found smoother recovery, earlier discharge, and personalized in-home care through the Heal at Home ...
Becker's Hospital Review

C-section rates at decade high, fertility at record low: 4 CDC findings

Cesarean section rates continued to rise in 2025, reaching a decade-high, while the nation’s fertility rate hit its lowest point in at least 25 years, new CDC data shows. The agency’s National Center ...
The Guardian

Why was a Florida woman forced to have a C-section?

Medical coercion is alive and well in the US healthcare system – especially if you’re a Black patient giving birth A harrowing recent ProPublica report tells the stories of two Black women in Florida ...
People

Hospital Forces Woman in Active Labor to Attend Zoom Court for Refusing C-Section

Cherise Doyley was forced to attend a court hearing from her hospital bed — with no legal representation — because she did not consent to a C-section Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on ...
Indiatimes

Caesarean section myths debunked: What every expecting parent needs to know

Caesarean section is the most common surgery performed in the world. About 25% of babies are delivered by caesarean section in general. Planned caesarean section is performed in certain cases where ...
Irish Examiner

Pregnancies later in life and obesity rates partially account for rise in caesarean sections, committee told

Ireland’s high caesarean section rate is partly linked to more older mothers and obesity rates but the rates are also rising in other countries, a senior HSE obstetrician has said. Dr Cliona Murphy, ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Unplanned C-section doubles risk of 'severe psychological stress' for new moms

REMEMBERING THE DAY YOUR CHILD WAS BORN. FOR MANY NEW MOMS, THEIR EXPERIENCE IN THE DELIVERY ROOM WAS BOTH THRILLING AND TERRIFYING. FOR OTHERS, IT WAS ALSO TRAUMATIC. BOSTON DOCTORS ARE LEARNING FROM ...
Newsweek

Mom Has C-Section, What She Captures One Week Later Goes Viral: ‘Felt That’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Haley Kucera (@itshaleyjace) shared the clip, which shows her jolting ...
Newsday

How 3 Long Island hospitals lowered their C-section rates

Although cesarean section rates have been roughly stagnant for years statewide and nationwide, some Long Island hospitals have made dramatic progress in reducing the percentage of low-risk pregnancies ...
Newsday

C-section rates remain higher at Long Island hospitals despite risks

Doctors perform cesarean sections more frequently at Long Island hospitals than at counterparts elsewhere in New York, even though the surgery poses greater risks to mothers than vaginal births, a ...
Self

Why Do Thousands of Women Feel the Pain of Their C-sections?

Emily had a bad feeling about her Caesarian section before it started. The epidural had numbed her legs, but she could sense the catheter in her bladder, which seemed wrong to her as a labor and ...