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Incredible video of baby 'popping out' during gentle caesarean
These videos of babies being born via gentle caesareans will blow you away.
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Rebecca Judd encourages natural birth after 'horrific' caesarean with twin boys
There are many things Rebecca Judd loves, caesarean sections are not one of them.
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Video captures beautiful breech caesarean birth
A new life is brought gently into the world with tender and expert hands.
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9 things I wish I'd known before I had a caesarean
Most would agree that a c-section isn't the way we want our babies to enter this world but sometimes we don't get to choose.
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'I was very frightened': Why Leanne had to fight to have her baby safely
A leading Sydney doctor says the push for natural childbirth is endangering women and babies.
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The mums who hand-deliver their own babies
"I was overwhelmed with excitement and couldn't wipe the smile off my face. I still get excited thinking about it now!"
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Family compensated over mother's fatal haemorrhage
Jamie Hare was excited about watching the birth of his fourth baby. On a cold day in June 2010, the plasterer put on a gown at Latrobe Regional Hospital and waited to be called into the operating theatre for his partner Linda's caesarean.
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Caesareans, diabetes on the rise for new mothers
More women in NSW are being diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy and more are having births induced or delivered by caesarean, new figures show.
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Why this mum says her C-section scar makes her a #badassmama
Raquel Renteria is a #badassmama. Why? Because she knows that giving birth via caesarean doesn't make her less of a mum.
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Mum posts photo of c-section scar to prove she gave birth
A new mum angered by people suggesting women who deliver their babies via caesarean section have not "given birth" has challenged that misconception by sharing a photograph of her scar.
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With a cesarean section, the path to obesity may begin at birth
Babies delivered by C-section were 64 per cent more likely to grow up to be obese than were their brothers and sisters delivered vaginally.
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