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Caesareans

June 2024

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    How did the Greens get it so wrong on ‘natural’ birth?

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    The party has backtracked on a policy to reduce childbirth interventions. Questioning the use of C-sections harks back to the days of ‘too posh to push’, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

September 2023

  • The Guardian documentary
    With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US

  • With Woman: a home-birth midwife in Illinois, guides a first-time mother through her delivery

    The Guardian documentary
    With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US

April 2023

  • Beverley Lawrence Beech

    Beverley Lawrence Beech obituary

    Campaigner who fought against the medicalisation of birth and exposed damaging practices that harmed women during labour

June 2022

  • Pregnant woman in hospital gown

    From natural birth to caesarean: women must be given unbiased information

    Kara Thompson
    Fear-mongering with misleading statistics does not support the goal of empowering women to make decisions

April 2022

  • Pregnant woman in hospital gown

    Maternal health must be prioritised

    Letter: A false dichotomy between ‘natural’ and safe birth deflects attention from the real cause of this crisis: years of government cuts, writes Sarah Davies
  • Entrance to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield

    Repeated maternity failings uncovered in Sheffield NHS trust

    Watchdog expresses concern over safety of mothers and babies days after damning Shrewsbury report
  • Newborn baby on mother's thighs near to a recent c-section scar with staples

    What is the ‘normal birth movement’ and why can it be harmful?

    Analysis: Striking balance when it comes to birth-related risks is why optimising use of C-section is global concern

March 2022

  • polaroid picture

    Mothers were shamed and traumatised at Shrewsbury hospital. I was one of them

    Anonymous
  • Road signs outside the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Shropshire, where at least 12 mothers died while giving birth

    Shropshire maternity scandal: 300 babies died or left brain-damaged, says report

February 2022

  • Illustration of a caesarean section scar

    Caesareans or vaginal births: should mothers or medics have the final say?

    More babies are born by C-section than ever, causing alarm at the WHO. But some believe the option should always be offered

September 2019

  • The court of protection

    Doctors can perform C-section if woman loses mental capacity, judge rules

    Ruling comes despite woman, who has bipolar disorder, saying she does not want procedure

October 2018

  • A mother holds her newborn baby.

    Use of caesarean sections growing at 'alarming' rate

    In some countries more than half of births now involve the procedure, experts say

September 2018

  • Xynthia Hawke

    Sister of UK woman who died in botched caesarean makes justice plea

    Xynthia Hawke, 28, died in France in 2014 after alleged error by drunk anaesthetist

August 2018

  • Pregnant Women In Prenatal Class

    Instead of judging women who want a C-section, why not listen?

    Rebecca Schiller
  • Baby being born via caesarean section.

    One in six NHS trusts do not offer caesareans on request – charity

April 2018

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    First thoughts
    Don’t save it for the duchess. All new mothers should be treated like royalty

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Rather than treating royal births as mundane events, why don’t we celebrate all the ordinary women who give birth, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

February 2018

  • Woman giving birth in the hospital assisted by her husband<br>DMX1AH Woman giving birth in the hospital assisted by her husband

    Do not intervene to speed up birth unless real risks involved, advises WHO

    Women in labour are increasingly being subjected to unnecessary and unwelcome interventions such as caesarean sections, warns WHO

October 2017

  • Michel Odent

    Michel Odent: ‘How long can humanity survive now?’

    Michel Odent has moved from being the benign natural-birth pioneer to a doomsayer predicting that caesarean sections will increase autism spectrum disorders and change humanity on an evolutionary level

September 2017

  • Stuart Heritage with his wife, Robyn, their son Herbie and newborn baby.

    Stuart Heritage: ‘This is how families work. You gain members, you lose members’

    Alone as his wife was rushed into surgery for their second emergency caesarean, Stuart Heritage yearned to see his mother. But she wasn’t there. As one life ended, another began
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