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Wednesday, September 06, 2006Babies are up to three times more likely to die soon after delivery if their mothers choose a Caesarean section rather than a normal birth, a big American study has shown. .....The team studied more than 5.7 million live births and nearly 12,000 infant deaths in the United States from 1998 to 2001. They counted deaths among babies that occurred within 28 days of birth, called neonatal deaths. They conclude in the journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care that the neonatal death rate for Caesarean birth among low-risk women was 1.77 deaths per 1,000 live births. The comparable rate among vaginal births was 0.62. Abstract here, but full article must be purchased. posted by Sydney on 9/06/2006 08:57:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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