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...Five hundred years later, surgical delivery seems as trifling as tooth extraction. In Chile, which is currently believed to have the world's highest cesarean rate, 40% of all births are in the operating theater. But larger populations in Asia mean that greater numbers of C-sections are performed in this region, particularly in South Korea (36.4% of all births in the first half of 2006), Taiwan (with a rate of roughly 33%), Singapore (about 30%) and China (approximately 26%). In Thailand, Dr. Stephen Atwood of the maternal and child-health section of UNICEF's regional office, says...
...Eugene Declercq of the Boston University School of Public Health cautions against giving too much weight to the cesarean-mortality connection, but concedes that "there is some evidence of higher maternal mortality rates in cases of cesareans to low-risk mothers," and suggests that a woman contemplating a C-section should ask herself why she should undergo major surgery "when she and her baby are healthy...
...days following a C-section, a woman will be at an elevated risk of potentially fatal blood clots or infections. This is common to all major surgery, but means that more women die as a result of cesarean section than in natural childbirth. The U.S. figure of 12.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 births in 2003 becomes 36 if only cesareans are considered - and the difference, according to Obstetrics and Gynecology, is "attributable to the surgery itself, not any complications that might have led to the need for surgery...
...childbirth once she has had a cesarean - because the uterine scar may rupture during labor with potentially dire consequences - it is likely that her subsequent children will also be surgically delivered, multiplying all of these risk factors each time. "If there is no medical reason to have a C-section, we would advise [women] to have a vaginal delivery," says Professor Tan Kok Hian of KK Women's and Children's Hospital in Singapore...
...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 have some colleagues at hospitals trying to change things but it's very hard." His spouse, Dr. Melanie Habanananda, adds: "If you use the term 'natural birth' here, people think it means you have to go sit in a paddy field to have your baby." Cesareans, she says, "have become very...