Women's Rights & Issues

about a lot of them being medically unnecessary! When I worked in neonatal/L&D, we had one doc whose C-section rate was much higher than any of the others'. Very often, his were done for "failure to progress', but on looking closely, a couple of us noticed that many of those were performed when he was about to go off call. It wasn't anything we could absolutely prove, but it was very suspect. He left several years after I left that hospital, but I don't know why. I know it had something to do with his wife divorcing him.

Also, in this country, OBs are too quick to resort to a C-section if the baby is breech or if it's a twin birth, where they don't in other countries. In this country it's like a reflex, not so in others. When my great-niece was born in Ukraine 4 years ago, she was breech. She was born the old-fashioned way, and with two midwives (although with a doctor on standby, just in case!). No problems. She looked like a little frog for a couple of days, but straightened out quickly. Here it would have been an automatic C-section.