Recovering from a C-section while caring for a newborn is tough—but what if you could heal at home with expert support?

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Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to ...

Concerned that a C-section could make bonding harder? Here is what the science shows about skin-to-skin, rooming-in, ...

When Rachel Somerstein was pregnant with her first child, delivering via cesarean section wasn’t in her plans. That changed the day she gave birth when after hours of labor, her daughter’s heartbeat ...

Isthmocele, sometimes called a Caesarean scar defect, is a small pouch that can form where a C-section incision was made.

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and ...

Emily had a bad feeling about her Caesarian section before it started. The epidural had numbed her legs, but she could sense the catheter in her bladder, which seemed wrong to her as a labor and ...

“But now you won't be able to tell people you've given birth to your baby, as a C-section isn't natural," the woman's mom said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...