Articles sur caesarean section

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The mode of delivery has a big impact on an infant’s microbiota, the bacteria that live in the gut. Martin Valigursky/Shutterstock

12 octobre 2016

Gut instinct: how the way you’re born and fed affect your immune system

Vincent Ho, Western Sydney University

The particular makeup of a newborn’s gut microbes is important as it has been shown to affect their risk of developing certain diseases later in childhood and adulthood.

A new study has found birth education and complementary therapies such as yoga and acupressure can reduce caesarean rates. from www.shutterstock.com.au

13 juillet 2016

Parent education and complementary therapies reduce birthing risks

Kate Levett, Western Sydney University et Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University

Is childbirth education important? Do all the programs aim to achieve the same thing and, most importantly, do they?

Around 85% of Australian women have a repeat caesarean, but it’s often not necessary. Kati Molin/Shutterstock

11 octobre 2015

Explainer: vaginal birth after caesarean

Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University et Hazel Keedle, Western Sydney University

We've come a long way from the first documented successful caesarean. In 1500, Swiss farmer Jacob Nufer operated on his wife after a labour of several days. She went on to have five more vaginal births.

With c-sections becoming so common, it’s time that we started to investigate what that means for child health. Baby via www.shutterstock.com.

11 juin 2015

Do kids born by C-section have a higher risk of chronic disease? A new study looks at the evidence

Jan Blustein, New York University

As more and more babies are delivered by cesarean section, we need to start investigating what that means for their long-term health.

For childbirth, how much intervention is too much? Image of pregnant woman via www.shutterstock.com.

3 juin 2015

Are hospitals the safest place for healthy women to have babies? An obstetrician thinks twice

Neel Shah, Harvard Medical School

Humans have always required some form of extra help being born. But how much help is truly necessary – and how much is too much.

Any information about birthing women are exposed to influences their expectations long before they directly receive maternity care. Raphaël Labbé/Flickr

1 mai 2015

Women’s magazines could play a role in promoting natural births

Kate Young, Monash University et Yvette Miller, Queensland University of Technology

Medical intervention in birth is normalised by both maternity care providers and all kinds of media. Our research shows information about the benefits of natural birth help women make better choices.

Despite WHO warnings, C-sections are way too popular. PhotographybyMK

15 mai 2014

Caesarean by diktat: UK is more like Brazil than you might think

Amanda Hunter, University of Edinburgh

Last month I attended a protest in London over an incident on the other side of the world. It concerned a woman named Adelir Carmen Lemos de Góes, who was forced to have a caesarean section in Torres…

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Hannah Dahlen
Professor of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
Yvette Miller
Associate Professor in Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
Amanda Hunter
Medical Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh
Kate Young
PhD candidate, Monash University
Vincent Ho
Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
Neel Shah
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School
Jan Blustein
Professor of Health Policy and Population Health, New York University
Hazel Keedle
Phd Candidate, Western Sydney University
Kate Levett
Research Fellow University of Notre Dame Australia; Adjunct Fellow (National Institute of Complementary Medicine), Western Sydney University, University of Notre Dame Australia