Childbirth is no walk in the park—no matter how your baby is delivered. There is a stigma around Cesarean deliveries, or c-sections, that incorrectly assumes they are “the easy way out,” but that is ...

The most common technique used for closing the uterus after a cesarean delivery causes so many long-term complications that ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and ...

Recovering from a C-section while caring for a newborn is tough—but what if you could heal at home with expert support?

While hospitals have made strides in improving some aspects of maternity care, cesarean section rates remain high nationally, according to Leapfrog’s 2025 Maternity Care Report. The report, published ...

Bonding is not a single golden hour, and a C-section does not put you behind. With the right support, connection grows ...

When Rachel Somerstein was pregnant with her first child, delivering via cesarean section wasn’t in her plans. That changed the day she gave birth when after hours of labor, her daughter’s heartbeat ...

Florida has become the first state to allow doctors to perform cesarean sections outside of hospitals, siding with a private equity-owned physicians group that says the change will lower costs and ...

A woman whose daughter was born via cesarean section has opened up about the one thing that left her upset following the birth. Natalie from Colorado's story, which was shared to TikTok under the ...

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...