Ballet dancer Darcey Bussell and her husband, Angus Forbes, with their two daughters - Phoebe, who was born by Caesarean at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and ZoePopular prejudice about the demanding women of west London, with their busy lifestyles and high-profile careers, is confirmed today with figures showing the local NHS trust is the Caesarean capital of Britain.The flagship Chelsea and...
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Emergency Caesarean rates continue to outstrip planned operations, official NHS statistics for England show.The country's overall Caesarean rate has remained static at nearly a quarter of all births, but there are significant regional variations.Babies at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust are twice as likely to be born by Caesarean as those in Nottingham.But the mantra of "too posh to push" does not...
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Close to one in four babies are born by a C-Section in Britain. These rising numbers of caesarean deliveries is a cause of concern as the numbers have nearly doubled in the past two decades.The flagship Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust is in the news for the highest number of Caesarean deliveries in Britain. Thirty four of the 5,230 deliveries at the trust was Caesarean, recent statistics reveal.Further,...
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World Health Organization has finally updated its 1985 recommendation on caesarean rates, admitting that "no empirical evidence for an optimum percentage" exists, an "optimum rate is unknown," and world regions may now "set their own standards."In its latest 2009 publication, 'Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: a handbook',(1) the WHO states that, 'Both very low and very high rates of caesarean section...
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Oct 24 : Doctors often get confused when it comes to deciding whether a particular woman in labour should undergo caesarean or not. But now, a computer can easily take this decision.Jose Príncipe and colleagues at the University of Florida in Gainesville say that wireless sensors could monitor the progress of labour, and warn doctors when a Caesarean is necessary.In the new method, software could monitor...
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girl delivered a boy in her hometown in New South Wales, the website of Woman's Day reported Monday.When the girl told her father that she was pregnant, they clung together and wept.The pre-teen has become one of the youngest mothers in the country after giving birth last month.She is only a baby herself and now shes got a baby, the girl's father told Womans Day in an exclusive interview.She hasnt...
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PerizaadZorabian is on cloud nine as her wish has come true. She gave birth to a healthybaby boy at 11.30 am yesterday.After marrying Boman Irani in2006, Perizaad had their first child, a daughter named Zaha, in November 2007.When Mumbai Mirror broke the news of her second pregnancy earlier this year inJuly, Perizaad had said, “Daughters are darlings and I have experiencedthat. Now I want to experience...
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hospital in the UK has banned fat women from giving birth at its maternity ward.Mums-to-be who have a body mass index (BMI) of over 34 will be turned away from Weston General Hospital, Somerset, reports the Daily Express.Instead patients will have to travel 20 miles to the nearest full-facilitated maternity unit at St Michael's Hospital, Bristol.Weston General Hospital trust argues that its midwife-led...
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When Amy Arnett woke up after an emergency caesarean three weeks ago and was warned by her husband Ryan their new daughter had unusual deformities in her hands, she was yet to know the tiny baby's hea......
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Pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are at slightly higher risk for some pregnancy complications but are no more likely to have other problems compared with other women, a new U.S. study suggests.Researchers used a national database on 18.8 million deliveries in the U.S. between 2003 and 2006 to compare newborns born to women with MS and 10,000 other women.Women with MS were slightly more likely...
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