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“Cesarean Sections”
Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery
English - February 10, 2020 08:00 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MB - ★★★★ - 24 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Medicine health stories healthcare disease treatment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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While members of the medical community concede that at 32% of births obstetricians are performing too many cesareans, cesarean sections can also be life-saving. That is why listening to, and learning from, women’s experiences can benefit both the mothers who might be helped by a timely cesarean, as well as the mothers who can probably avoid the surgery if they are allowed to go into labor spontaneously, or permitted to labor a little longer. In this episode of Lifespan, Robin, Amanda, and Jacinda tell their stories.