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    NPR‏Verified account @NPR Oct 12

    Since 1990, C-sections around the world have more than tripled — from about 6% of all births to 21%, according to three studies.https://n.pr/2P0jjek 

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      2. Megs Of RAM‏ @megsofram Oct 12
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        Because mothers don’t want to die.

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      3. Patricia Ann‏ @Patricia_Ann_E Oct 12
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        C sections have a higher risk of this, actually. Higher risk of bleeding, blood clots, infection etc.

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      1. Belinda Patel‏ @PatelBelinda Oct 12
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        It's all about convenience it seems. And medical intervention is far more profitable. Women are capable & have had babies for hundreds of thousands of years without being cut open. Not saying isn't sometimes necessary. Just overused.

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      2. Anastasia  👩🏼‍💻‏ @Nastia_Inc Oct 12
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        Can someone explain how, what evidence is there to support the claim that C-sections raise the chance of obesity and autoimmune diseases later in life in babies? What kind of study was done? It sounds so tale-like to scare women into not doing a C-section.

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      3. Ash-A-Leeeeeeeeee‏ @Ashley_LikeWhoa Oct 12
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        There are studies that explain this. It has to do with the infants microbiome. It is composed of completely different bacteria w/vaginal birth versus csection. This affects health in many ways. Some hospitals are now offering “vaginal seeding” to moms who have to undergo csection

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      2. Nixon Richard‏ @RichardMilhousN Oct 12
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        How come in Star Trek they still deliver babies when they coulda just used the transporter and beamed that little rugrat out of there?

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      1. Faerunner‏ @ElfFromDenerim Oct 12
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        Oh no! Women deciding what to do with their bodies and how they want their babies delivered. What monsters. They should push watermelons out their golf ball-sized vaginas like God intended!

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      1. RL‏ @Yenmor Oct 12
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        I had a C-Section in 1993. Neither I or my 25 year old daughter might be here if I didn’t have one.

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      2. rachel‏ @baroquerw Oct 12
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        Something is very wrong when the thing our bodies were meant to do is now being done 21% of the time through ELECTIVE surgery. I had two c-sections out of necessity, so I’m not anti c-section, but c’mon. Our bodies are literally made to have babies-physiologically speaking.

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      3. Schopenhauer‏ @schopens Oct 12
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        Why does it matter how a baby is birthed? The end result is the same, so who cares how it’s achieved?

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      1. Alex‏ @ScaliaThought Oct 12
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        That’s because hospitals charge up to 3 times more because it’s invasive surgery versus a normal delivery.

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      2. Michelle Wyatt Mrozkowski‏ @michellemroz Oct 12
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        I haven't listened to this yet, but I'm going to step out on a limb, having had a few C-sections myself-- it's way easier and a lot less voodoo than pushing a watermelon out. Oh, with C-sections on the rise, tummy tucks ought to be covered by most health insurance. they aren't.

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      3. Ginny Granger Scamander‏ @ginnyscamander Oct 12
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        Why should you get a tummy tuck with insurance just because you were cut open instead of pushed out the baby?

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      4. Michelle Wyatt Mrozkowski‏ @michellemroz Oct 13
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        Maybe do a little research into what it does. It weakens the abdominal wall, the muscles separate, you ca n't stand up straight, back problems set in, in a number of years. I don't mean liposuction, I just mean, reattach the muscles. Look it up. You'll see.

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      1. Iki_Fluff‏ @FluffIki Oct 12
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        $$$

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      1. Counterpoint Policy Institute‏ @CounterpointPol Oct 12
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        'You're going to pay me more [to do a C-section], you're not going to sue me and I'll be done in a hour,' So... basically profiteering. #healthcare

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      1. Julie Cantor‏ @JulieDCantor Oct 12
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        Fixes: Watchful waiting. CNMs. CMs. Collaborative care. No routine EFM (does nothing but increase c-sections; is unethical). OBGYN residents should train with midwives to understand physiological birth. Read the dozens of books about the broken culture of birth in America.

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      1. -=M=-‏ @mossland Oct 12
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        Type A mom on tight schedule, meet Type A Obgyn on tight schedule. Color me suprised.

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