Reasons For Rise In Caesarean Births | Letter

The emergence successful nan complaint of medically assisted births successful nan UK, peculiarly caesareans, is laid firmly astatine nan feet of women for being older, larger and having much analyzable aesculapian problems (Report, 11 September). This ignores a scope of objective and societal factors that contribute. Maternal factors play a part, but truthful does nan emergence successful protect objective practice, nan nonaccomplishment of midwives’ and obstetricians’ skills and assurance successful supporting physiological birth, and nan proliferation of misinformation and scare stories connected societal media that summation parental anxiety.

All these factors person led america to nan existent crisis, wherever much than 50% of babies are calved pinch surgical intervention, pinch nary concomitant betterment successful maternal aliases perinatal mortality and with chartless consequences for nan wellness and wellbeing of early generations.
Dr Debbie Garrod
Midwife and antenatal educator, Abingdon, Oxfordshire