I just checked out a chart on infant mortality rates... and yes, much safer to give birth in all of the Scandinavian countries who have low C/section rates, more in line with World Health Organisation recomendations.
If C/sections are the "safest" means of having a baby you'd think that the countries that have the most c/sections would have the best mortality rates... why is the opposite the case?
ETA: sorry Trillian... I hope I haven't been out of line in this thread. I'm just trying to work out if high c/section rates equate with safety... delete my post if I'm OT. I was just trying to compare country of birth to hospital of birth.... drawing a comparison. I'm not suggesting that all c/sections are unsafe.
Last edited by Bathsheba; November 20th, 2008 at 03:41 PM.
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