Are vaginal births archaic?

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.”

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