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This first-of-its-kind map shows C-section rates at over 1,700 hospitals. The differences are stark

At Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas, doctors performed C-sections on half of all women with low-risk pregnancies — first-time mothers at full term, carrying a single baby positioned ...
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C-section rates vary widely by hospital, but women often can't see the data

One of the best ways to avert an unnecessary C-section is to choose a hospital with low rates for the procedure, experts say. Yet pregnant women looking for this data may come up short. Only 11 states ...
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C-sections are a moneymaker. One hospital tried to fight the system — and lost.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 2016, obstetrician Dr. Jesanna Cooper's practice hired a nurse-midwife to deliver babies at Princeton Baptist ...

Hospital Life for C-Sections and Threatened Premature Labor! 5 Carefully Selected Items That Greatly Improved My Quality of Life

I experienced a total of 14 days of hospitalization: 7 days after being diagnosed with threatened premature labor during my ...
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C-section rates vary widely by hospital, but women often can't see the data

Roughly one in 10 pregnant women in the US undergoes a cesarean section that experts say could have been avoided. One of the strongest predictors of her risk of a medically unnecessary C-section isn't ...
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C-sections are a moneymaker. One hospital tried to fight the system — and lost.

In the spring of 2016, obstetrician Dr. Jesanna Cooper's practice hired a nurse-midwife to deliver babies at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. The nurse-midwife was ...