A recent study published by physicians in the British Medical Journal found that an elective Cesarean delivery can as much as quadruple the odds that the delivered baby will suffer respiratory difficulties when compared against those babies delivered vaginally or via emergency Cesarean section. Physician researchers speculate that hormonal changes associated with labor may be necessary for proper development of the lungs of newborns, and that if removed from a mother’s womb prior to those hormonal changes occurring, a baby may miss an important physiological development cue. The authors of the study suggest that newborn deaths attributed to respiratory difficulty and/or distress could be reduced if elective Cesarean births did not occur until after thirty-nine (39) weeks of gestation.
To read the article published in the British Medical Journal, please click on the link below:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.39405.539282.BEv1?
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