The moment you find out you’re pregnant, the questions start flooding in. One of the biggest decisions you’ll face is how you want to deliver your baby. With C-section rates climbing and natural birth ...

In recent years, a significant shift in cesarean section procedures has transformed the experience for mothers, moving it from a purely medical intervention to a more intimate, personal moment. The ...

When Rachel Somerstein was pregnant with her first child, delivering via cesarean section wasn’t in her plans. That changed the day she gave birth when after hours of labor, her daughter’s heartbeat ...

A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus in Jackson, Miss. Florida has become the first state to allow doctors to perform cesarean sections ...

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 ...

April is C-Section Awareness Month, and this year, the meaning hits much closer to home. I recently gave birth via Cesarean section — something I’ve read about, heard about and even assisted others ...

Florida has become the first state to allow doctors to perform cesarean sections outside of hospitals, siding with a private equity-owned physicians group that says the change will lower costs and ...

EMMA CUSDEN had always assumed she would give birth naturally. But once she became pregnant that calm assumption quickly ...