The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published their findings in the alarming trend of increased C-Section births being performed in hospitals.
Nearly one third (33%) of babies delivered in United States hospitals now arrive by ways of C-Section, a 38% increase since 1995.
I recently read an article from the American Medical Association (AMA) that was critical of Natural Childbirth procedures, in both controlled birthing center births and at-home deliveries.
It's apparent that the AMA is suffering from misplaced frustration.
While C-Sections are a medical necessity in many instances, the rapid rise in these procedures is due to the insurance industries stronghold on hospitals. The result is that childbirth has now been rendered a surgical procedure.
Get the mother in, pump them with pharmaceuticals, scream like all get out to push, clamp forceps to extract that baby out as fast as they can, and quickly show mom and baby the door to get them home.
Makes you wonder why you'd leave home in the first place.
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