A record proportion of Victorian mums are giving birth via C-section, after the caesarean rate reached a high of 42.6 per ...

Doctors recommend C-sections when a baby is turned the wrong way, to mothers who've already had a C-section, and in other specific circumstances. The two stages of the procedure — 5 to 15 minutes to ...

As a birth photographer, I’m asked to capture some of the most important stories of a family’s life. I step into their birthing space and document the small and big moments that unfold. I tell the ...

Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust protection ...

After nine months spent as a growing life in someone else’s body, the second a baby is born, they begin growing life in their own body: colonies of tiny bacterial cells ready to begin populating a ...

When my daughter’s delivery went off the script I had imagined, it made me wonder about what we ask from our birth stories. Owen, Oct. 17, 2014; 12 seconds old.Credit...Artwork by Christian Berthelot ...

A study by the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fudan University, China, has found that a single dose of the measles jab is up to 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in children born by ...

Women born by cesarean section were 11% more likely to be obese and had a 46% higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared with women born by vaginal delivery, according to a study ...

Huge numbers of women in California have C-sections — particularly for first-time, low-risk births. If those people want to have more children after that first uterine surgery, they may find access to ...

A C-section birth is not an ‘easy way out’; it’s a brave and beautiful journey that deserves just as much celebration as any other birth. Whether your C-section was planned or unexpected, it marks ...

Babies born by C-section may be at a higher risk for immune-related conditions than babies who are born vaginally. The reason for this could be that, at birth, C-section babies don't ingest their ...

A 22-year-old Mexican migrant living in Chicago was arrested by ICE, just days after she had given birth to her daughter, who ...