Anaesthesia plays a vital role in a C-section, ensuring that the birth is both safe and pain-free for the mother. The type of ...

BOSTON — Pregnant women can be given a low-dose epidural early in labor without increasing their chances of a Caesarean section, according to a study that could change the way obstetricians practice ...

Fanchon Turnbull Stults was a first-time mom, excitedly planning for her baby boy, when halfway through her pregnancy she learned he was in a breech position. Breech babies, babies who are angled butt ...

Among women included in this analysis, which excluded women if they had medical conditions that required immediate cesarean sections or precluded the use of epidural, 754 (36.7%) of the women had ...

A British woman says her newborn son will be her first and last child after the epidural she received prior to his birth allegedly wore off during an emergency cesarean section. In September, new mom ...

Emily had a bad feeling about her Caesarian section before it started. The epidural had numbed her legs, but she could sense the catheter in her bladder, which seemed wrong to her as a labor and ...

All through my pregnancy I said I wanted a natural birth. No drugs, no machines, minimal intervention. I wanted to give my baby a pure beginning—the purest beginning possible, unpolluted by chemicals.

Infants exposed to general anesthesia during Caesarean-section births are known to be at higher risk of developing autism symptoms. But the reason has been a mystery. Now, Israeli researchers claim to ...

Why Was I Shamed for Wanting a C-Section? The backlash for considering an elective cesarean wasn’t just social – it was institutional. Why Was I Shamed for Wanting a Cesarean? It took me months to ...