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...unprepared to handle the unusual pregnancy and postponed the procedure. She never went back. Though the Lakebergs are Catholic, Reitha, a quiet wisp of a woman, calls her decision mostly personal: "In my heart, I couldn't get rid of my babies." On June 29 she gave birth by Caesarean section; Amy and Angela together weighed just over...
Pregnant women infected with the AIDS virus often pass it along to their offspring. One way to cut the risk of transmission is to deliver by caesarean section. Only 14% of babies delivered surgically are infected, vs. 20% born vaginally, researchers report. Studies suggest one way the virus is transmitted is through the birth canal...
HAVING A BABY IS NO HARDER OR RISKIER THAN IT ever was. So why are caesarean sections now used in 23% of all U.S. births, up from only 5% in 1965? Most people have long suspected, and many doctors agree, that fear of malpractice suits haunts the delivery rooms. When complications arise, or the labor is unusually long and hard, many physicians apparently feel safer bringing out the scalpel than trying to let nature take its course...
...evidence linking caesareans to malpractice fears was scant -- until a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Scientists analyzed data on 60,490 births at New York hospitals and insurance premiums paid by doctors in various regions. Their finding: the odds of having a caesarean section were three times as great in areas where premiums -- and the frequency of suits -- were high as in regions where malpractice costs are lower. Critics charge that as many as half a million caesareans each year are medically unnecessary...
Doctors delivered the baby by emergency caesarean. The infant took several breaths, then died; the mother survived and went home to live with her family. Knighton meanwhile slipped away from the hospital and made his way to his father's house near Pompano Beach, where he hoped to hide out for a while. But his father persuaded him to turn himself in, and the boy was charged as an adult with second-degree murder and aggravated battery. He eventually pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and in April 1991 was sentenced to four years in the Indian River Correctional Institution...