{"id":13005,"date":"2015-09-07T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2015-09-07T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T04:33:48","slug":"mothers-are-increasingly-having-caesarean-deliveries-for-weird-economic-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/mothers-are-increasingly-having-caesarean-deliveries-for-weird-economic-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Are Increasingly Having Caesarean Deliveries For Weird Economic Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/090715_0429_MothersAreI1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More mothers are having caesarean deliveries than necessary, wrote The Economist. Here are some of the reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hospitals make more money from caesareans, which can be a complicated procedure, than from natural births.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover natural births take time. Doctors are paid per delivery and they can deliver several caesarean children in the time it takes for a natural birth to run its course.<\/li>\n<li>A caesarean makes it look like a doctor is putting effort into the birth and makes parents less likely to sue if there&#8217;s a problem during the delivery.<\/li>\n<li>There are also mundane human motives at play. If a baby isn&#8217;t ready to meet the real world towards the end of a Friday, or by the end of a shift, then impatient doctors may just call for a caesarean.<\/li>\n<li>In fact an abnormally low number of babies are born on public holidays, with doctors presumably wanting to enjoy long weekends.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just doctors nudging expectant mothers though. Some parents want their children to be born on certain dates for good luck.<\/li>\n<li>And those in developing countries may just be afraid of being stuck in traffic on the all-important delivery date if it&#8217;s not pre-planned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This, The Economist notes, is a bit of a problem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s no doubt that caesareans are important in multiple cases. Countries that don&#8217;t have enough caesareans suffer.<\/li>\n<li>However if caesareans are being used for any more than about 15% of pregnancies then they&#8217;re being used too much.<\/li>\n<li>The procedure is dangerous \u2013 those who undergo it are three times more likely to have emergencies during the delivery process.<\/li>\n<li>It can also lead to weaker children who don&#8217;t pick up the bacteria they normally do through a natural birth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the distorted baby heads that maybe playing a role, how to make mothers comfortable during a natural birth, and many other fascinating details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21660974-global-rise-caesarean-sections-being-driven-not-medical-necessity?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21660974-global-rise-caesarean-sections-being-driven-not-medical-necessity?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More mothers are having caesarean deliveries than necessary, wrote The Economist. Here are some of the reasons why: Hospitals make more money from caesareans, which can be a complicated procedure, than from natural births. Moreover natural births take time. Doctors are paid per delivery and they can deliver several caesarean children in the time it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/090715_0429_MothersAreI1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13010,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions\/13010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}