With around one in four pregnant people in the UK having a caesarean birth (according to the NHS), it's no wonder that many parents-to-be have questions about what to expect from a c-section. From how ...

Almost one-third of births in the U.S. are delivered by cesarean section — or C-section. Surgical births are performed in the hospital, with a medical team present. Gentle C-sections allow you more ...

After nine months spent as a growing life in someone else’s body, the second a baby is born, they begin growing life in their own body: colonies of tiny bacterial cells ready to begin populating a ...

Childbirth is no walk in the park—no matter how your baby is delivered. There is a stigma around Cesarean deliveries, or c-sections, that incorrectly assumes they are “the easy way out,” but that is ...

The hard part of delivery may be over, but now you need to recover physically and emotionally. If you recently had a ...

When my son was born via cesarean delivery, commonly referred to as a C-section, I was completely unprepared for what recovery would look like. To be fair, I had kind of ignored this part of my ...

After pushing for two hours with my first child, I was sent to have a C-section. With my second child, I tried for a VBAC but ended with a C-section again. For my last two babies, I just went ahead ...