Website review: Moms decry high N.J. C-section rate
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shifrah discovered 6 months ago- From the page: "In New Jersey, more than one out of every three births -- or 37 percent -- were delivered by C-section in 2005, according to state health officials. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said New Jersey had the nation's highest Cesarean rate in 2004, according to the latest nationwide data available. "This is a good moment in time to bring attention to the Cesarean crisis in New Jersey," said Jennifer Santos Kraft, a child birth educator from Hopewell. The rally yesterday was sparked by the deaths of Valerie Scythes, 35, of Woodbury, who died March 28th, and Melissa Farah, 28, of Oaklyn, who died April 12." Also of note in this story: the mom who chose to deliver at home with a midwife instead of taking her chances of becoming another C-Secion statistic in a hospital with a 37% rate of surgical births, not a normal environment to give birth in, for certain. Why is surgical birth accepted as normal in our society? It creates more risk of death or complications for the mother, and costs our health care system billions of dollars a year in avoidable costs...
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