Cesarean Births

Cesarean Births

Introduction

There is one area, caesarean birth, that is not addressed in most of the new models except by condemnation. Caesarean birth has become the means of delivery for more than one fourth of all newborns. As one labor room nurse said, "It is a vaginal bypass." Those of us who have monopoly on caesarean birth, obstetricians, have remained unchallenged except by people like Jane English who through her book, Different Doorway, reminds us that though we were successful in saving a mother or child by the surgical, vaginal bypass, we have given far too little respect to the ...