New Delhi: Caesarean section deliveries have become more popular throughout the world, and the trend is skyrocketing in India.
A caesarean section, also known as c-section, is the delivery of a baby through a surgical incision in the mother's abdomen and uterus. A cesarean delivery is often performed when a vaginal birth would put the baby or mother at risk.
Despite the risk, many women are opting for C-section deliveries nowadays, simply because they want to avoid labour pain or coincide with certain events although there are no complications with their pregnancies.
It it believed that demographic changes and shifts in maternal health may have contributed to the rise in the use of C-sections in recent decades.
Here are some important things you need to know about C-section delivery:
Although caesarean sections are lifesaving for the mother and baby in many cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that they should be done based on medical need.
While caesarean section deliveries can save lives when babies are too large to be born naturally - or if there are other health complications - they also appear to be affecting how humans are evolving, as per a latest study.
Using a simple mathematical model, researchers from Austria and the United States estimated that the regular use of C-sections has led to a 10 to 20% increase in the gap between female pelvis width and babies’ size, which they dubbed the phenomenon 'fetopelvic disproportion'.
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