Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

"Once we got home it was a shock I’m sure most mothers feel. The feeling of 'what do I do now?" Haley Kucera told Newsweek.

Pregnant women are not being warned of the potentially fatal risks of vaginal birth after C-section, a coroner has warned following the death of a newborn baby. Mabel Williams died at just six days ...

Doctors perform cesarean sections more frequently at Long Island hospitals than at counterparts elsewhere in New York, even though the surgery poses greater risks to mothers than vaginal births, a ...

While she said she likely won't be able to travel, he responded by asking, "Okay, but if you change your mind, do I get a free pass?" Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

In the U.S., the rate of Cesarean sections jumped 55% in the 25 years ending in 2021, and now, three in every 10 births occurs by C-section, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). With ...

“But now you won't be able to tell people you've given birth to your baby, as a C-section isn't natural," the woman's mom said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...

Smith+Nephew's PICO sNPWT device significantly reduced surgical site complications in C-section patients compared with another sNPWT device. The study showed PICO sNPWT led to lower rates of ...

There's no correct way to give birth. Whether you opt for a cesarean section, forgo drugs, or go the home birth route, every birth is unique and special in its own right. Still, one mom was left ...

Erika Hasson was forced to have an emergency C-section nearly a decade ago. She gave birth to her daughter, Emily, at 25 weeks. The Hasson family now works with the March of Dimes, a non-profit aiming ...