Some OBs think so:
Flamm says that notwithstanding the WHO recommendation — which followed the same official U.S. health recommendations in the Healthy People 2000 initiative — there isn’t enough data to say what the appropriate C-section rate should be.“Some of my colleagues think it should be higher,” Flamm says. “I have heard some doctors say that all women should have babies by C-section, that vaginal births are archaic. Some docs have a C-section rate of 50 percent because they believe in their hearts it’s the best thing for their patients.”
