The best birth is the safest one for birthing parent & baby. Average age of 1st pregnancy is higher than ever before, & more medically complex patients are able to have children- cesarean rates therefore should be their highest ever. Our focus should be on reducing birth trauma not c section rates.
Dr J. M. Wall
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
