C-section rates decrease in more than half of U.S. states

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The percentage of babies delivered by cesarean section in the United States has increased dramatically over the past several decades, but that trend is now reversing, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers looked at the rates of low-risk c-sections between 1990 and 2013 and found that, though one-third of all babies born in the U.S. are still delivered via c-section each year, the frequency of this mode of delivery is declining in most parts of the U.S. Generally, "low-risk" c-sections are those done in situations when a vaginal birth would have posed a relatively low risk to the mother and baby's health; high-risk c-sections are those done out of greater medical necessity. Read more...

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