Pre-term births are on the rise. Nearly one-third of women have major abdominal surgery to give birth. And compared with other industrialized countries, the United States ranks second-to-last in ...

If you have a scheduled cesarean delivery, commonly referred to as a C-section, on the books, you may be feeling equal parts nervous and eager. This type of birth experience may or may not have been ...

DENTON, Texas — Some of the most startling victims of the nationwide opioid crisis are new mothers. Drug overdoses are the number one killer of Texas women in the year after they give birth, according ...

The most common major surgery in America for women isn’t knee or hip replacement surgery—it’s a Caesarean section. One in every three births in the U.S. happens via C-section, a rate that has ...

The symptoms can occur months or even years after the surgery. Credit...Getty Images Supported by By Melinda Wenner Moyer Q: I had a C-section about a year ago, but my scar still sometimes hurts, ...

Giving birth via caesarean section – in which a baby is delivered via a cut made to your tummy and womb, rather than through your vagina – is incredibly common. According to the NHS, around 1 in 4 ...