The number of C-section deliveries in India is twice the global average and much higher than WHO recommendations.

Some parts of the country see too many Cesareans; others see too few.

While doctors and hospitals recommend it to meet targets, patient ignorance is also part of the problem.

In fact, it reduces it.

If all goes well, in a few months you should barely know it's there.

While C-section rates continue to rise around India and globally, women’s health activists are struggling to raise awareness among patients about the risks inherent in surgical deliveries. In India, C-sections are too often framed as the more convenient and predictable, 

Electronic fetal monitoring — that is, constantly monitoring a baby’s heartbeat — is often used during labor to make sure babies don’t lack of oxygen during labor and suffer resulting brain damage. In some parts of the world, continuous fetal 

Public discussions over unnecessary C-sections are not a recent phenomenon in India. In 1991 the author of a scholarly article lamented that while poor women in India suffer due to a lack of even simple and basic services, rich women 

You can put that put that vaginal swab away now. The infant microbiome has been in the news for about a decade, now, after a 2006 study found that babies born via C-section had poorer microbiomes than babies born vaginally. The research