One mom called the "gentle" C-section experience "amazing." — -- When Tara Martinez gave birth to her second child, she was able to watch the birth and have immediate skin-to-skin contact with ...

Kelsey Birch remembers the crushing pressure, the sharp jerks, and the feeling of hands inside her abdomen. "I felt like I was being torn apart," she said. "I couldn't handle it." Birch, a then ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." During her son’s birth via C-section in May, Jenna Jonaitis watched her baby come out of her body. She ...

Today, nearly 1 in 3 births in the United States are performed by cesarean section, and a growing number of those are planned rather than done in response to an emergency. Planned C-sections allow ...

Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study found. By Sarah Kliff Obstetricians are more likely ...

A picture of a laughing, blond two-year-old hangs on one wall of the office of Claudio Giorlandino, president of Italy’s National Commission on Maternity and Birth. The boy, a twin, was delivered at ...

Cesarean births can prevent injury and death for both the parent and baby during the delivery process, however it can also increase unexpected complications such as infection, organ injury, blood ...

Doctors are more likely to subject pregnant Black women to unnecessary cesarean deliveries than pregnant white women, particularly when operating rooms are sitting empty, according to research ...