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Painful Decisions But regardless of the best efforts of physicians to reassure them, avoiding the pain of childbirth remains the wish of many women, if they can help and afford it. And sometimes circumstances - at least in developing countries - do not make it easy for doctors to have the patience...
Finally, as a woman contemplates future children, she may face the possibility of reduced fertility. A 2004 study found that women who had cesareans were almost four times more likely to have problems conceiving again, compared to women who gave birth naturally. The former will also experience increased risks of...
Despite the procedure's pitfalls, there have been few official attempts to reduce Asia's high cesarean rates. One of the more notable instances was in South Korea in 2004 - three years after the country's rate hit an OECD high of 40.5%. A chastened government launched a campaign to...
In Thailand, the pleas of natural-birth advocates do not find a large audience. "It's like pushing a stone uphill," says veteran campaigner Dr. Tanit Habanananda of the Childbirth and Breastfeeding Foundation of Thailand. "We're frustrated. It's very easy to get a C-section in Thailand. We...
In general terms, the medical establishment comes in for a hard time from natural-childbirth advocates, many of whom wrap their arguments in the valence of feminism - speaking of doctors systematically reducing women's belief in their ability to give natural birth, with mothers lined up, strapped down and sliced...