http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—When a baby is in the breech position at the end of pregnancy, obstetricians can sometimes turn the baby head-down to enable a safer vaginal birth. In the past, women were not given anesthesia during the turning procedure, which requires the physician to push on the woman's abdomen while monitoring the baby with ultrasound. But a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital shows anesthesia is cost-effective because it increases the likelihood the procedure will work. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-anesthesia-success-breech-babies-delivery.html Other Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:10:01 EST news285490314 In a study to be presented on February 14 at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will report findings that suggest that planned birthing of twins at 32-38 weeks by cesarean section does not decrease perinatal or neonatal death compared to planned vaginal birth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-c-sections-advantage-vaginal-birth-twins.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:07:20 EST news279799631 (HealthDay)—Twenty years after childbirth, the risk of symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (sPOP) is increased after a single vaginal delivery versus cesarean section, according to a study published online Nov. 2 in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-vaginal-delivery-ups-pelvic-prolapse.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:50:02 EST news271676727 (HealthDay)—About 10 percent of U.K. women who undergo cesarean section develop a surgical site infection, with the odds significantly increased for overweight or obese women, according to a study published in the October issue of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-post-cesarean-infection-overweight-obese.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:55:08 EST news267886499 (HealthDay)—For women whose infants are delivered by vacuum extraction, the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) is significantly higher among nulliparous women than multiparous women, according to a study published online Aug. 13 in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-oasis-nulliparous-women-vacuum-delivery.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:50:02 EST news265033611 Giving antibiotics before cesarean section surgery rather than just after the newborn's umbilical cord is clamped cuts the infection rate at the surgical site in half, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-antibiotics-important-infections-c-section.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:03:22 EST news263131326 A University of Adelaide study has revealed that inducing labor in pregnant women when it's not medically necessary is more likely to result in complications at birth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-unnecessary-labor-induction-complications.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:32:47 EST news252235358 Researchers have designed a new version of a labor-tracking tool for pregnant women that they predict could reduce the use of hormonal intervention during labor and lower the number of cesarean sections performed on low-risk, first-time mothers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-labor-tracking-tool-c-sections-first-time-moms.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:01:53 EST news250948815 A new study published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica reveals that induction of labor at term in the absence of maternal or fetal indications increases the risk of cesarean section and other postpartum complications for the woman, as well as neonatal complications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-unnecessary-induction-labor-cesarean-section.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:51:01 EST news250253455 In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that women who have undergone one prior delivery via cesarean section appear to know little about the risks and benefits associated with undergoing either a second cesarean or trial of labor to attempt a vaginal delivery, and that the preference of their medical provider strongly affects their selection between the two options. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pregnant-women-prior-cesarean-delivery.html Other Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:52:19 EST news247985532 A new study supports previous findings that children delivered by cesarean section have an increased risk of developing asthma. The study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) suggests that children delivered by cesarean section have an increased risk of asthma at the age of three. This was particularly seen among children without a hereditary tendency to asthma and allergies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-asthma-age-cesarean-section.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:31:41 EST news245413890 (AP) -- Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a rule change that critics describe as the health system caving into the "too posh to push" crowd. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-posh-c-sections-demand-uk.html Health Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:55:29 EST news239615716 Caesarean section rates are steadily increasing globally. Requiring two doctors to agree that a Caesarean section is the best way to deliver a baby, rather than just needing one opinion, providing internal feedback to doctors on the number of operations performed and seeking support from local opinion leaders may reduce the use of this procedure. For low-risk pregnancies, nurse-led relaxation classes for women with a fear or anxiety of childbirth and birth preparation classes for mothers may decrease caesarean sections. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-local-efforts-stem-unnecessary-cesarean.html Health Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:44:57 EST news230899368 (Medical Xpress) -- In one of the first studies to examine the reasons for the rising number of women delivering their babies by cesarean section, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that while half of the increase was attributable to a rise in repeat cesarean delivery in women with a prior cesarean birth, an equal proportion was due to a rise in first time cesarean delivery. Among these deliveries, factors such as slowly progressing labor and fetal heart rate concerns were the largest contributors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-cesarean-births.html Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:33:11 EST news227953957 A new study published in the international Nordic journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (AOGS) reveals that inducing labor in the weeks around term, or from week 39 to week 41, is not connected with higher rates of cesarean section compared with waiting for a later spontaneous or induced labor. There has been much debate about this in recent years with a concern that induction as opposed to expectant management might lead to a higher risk for the woman to end up with emergency cesarean section, rather than to deliver normally. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-labor-higher-cesarean-sections.html Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:09:34 EST news227790568