Childbirth doesn’t have to look one way. Around the world, and increasingly in India, more parents are exploring birth ...

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At Houston Methodist Willowbrook, two labor-and-delivery rooms stand out from the rest. The spaces look more like calm, spa-like suites than hospital units-dimmable lights, soft wood tones, a laboring ...

C-sections have become the most common form of birth in England after overtaking 'natural' births for the first time. Some 45.1 per cent of women who gave birth in 2024/25 delivered their baby via ...

More babies are being born by caesarean section in England than delivered naturally - without assistance - for the first time. Latest NHS data for 2024-25 shows that 45% of births were by C-section, ...

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Experts say the surge in C-section rates is rooted in fear EMMA CUSDEN had always assumed she would give birth naturally. But once she became pregnant that calm assumption quickly unravelled. Please ...

One Tuesday night, 11 days before she was due to give birth, Katherine Cribbs took a bath. Usually, Cribbs could feel her baby son moving and playing inside her womb when she was in the water. But ...

Bengaluru: To address the rising rates of C-sections in Karnataka, which account for nearly 47% of institutional births, the ...