The high caesarean rates aren’t an issue?
Many maternal fatalities are caused by undetected health issues, such as asthma or heart disease … Pregnancy can exacerbate pre-existing health conditions, leaving obese women — who now make up 20 percent of pregnancies — more susceptible to potentially fatal consequences. … Cesarean sections might be another important factor. The number of women scheduling cesarean births has increased by 50 percent … since 1996 … the procedure is … major surgery. … most maternal fatalities aren’t considered “preventable” … … advocates hope to see more preventive efforts earlier in pregnancies. That means improved awareness of complications among pregnant women and better screening efforts by doctors, along with thorough postnatal care. No mention here of midwives, yet the WHO recommends that midwives are the most appropruate care providers for healthy, low-risk women. Debate also persists over the safety of out-of-hospital births … they’ve increased for the first time in two decades. The births still
