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February 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:30 PM on 9th February 2012
Mothers who are ‘too posh to push’ may be increasing the chance of their child developing breathing problems, a new study revealed today.
There has previously been a widely-held assumption that a Caesarean delivery has no health risks for the baby.
But new research has found the procedure was not beneficial for some premature babies, who were small for their gestational age, and may even have contributed to their breathing problems.
Risk: A midwife weighing newborn baby after caesarian birth – which could cause breathing problems for premature babies
Researchers found that small babies, who were delivered early by c-section before 34 weeks of pregnancy, had higher rates of respiratory distress syndrome than similar pre-term babies who were born naturally.
The March of Dimes charity has been leading an ongoing two-year campaign to reduce medically unnecessary early deliveries.
Doctor Diane Ashton, March of Dimes
deputy medical director, said: ‘These findings overturn conventional
wisdom that c-sections have few or no risks for the baby and are
consistent with the March of Dimes effort to end medically unnecessary
deliveries before 39 weeks of pregnancy.
‘Although in many instances, a c-section is medically necessary for the health of the baby or the mother, this research shows that in some cases the surgery may not be beneficial for some infants.’
The study, entitled ‘Method of Delivery and Neonatal Outcomes in Preterm, Small For Gestational Age Infants’, was led by assistant professor of Maternal Foetal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Doctor Erika Werner.
Researchers reviewed birth certificate and hospital discharge information for 2,560 small for gestational age babies who were delivered premature.
C-sections often are performed for babies diagnosed with intrauterine growth restriction who are not growing adequately in the womb.
Dr Werner and her team found that babies small for gestational age delivered by a c-section before 34 weeks of pregnancy had a 30 per cent higher odds of developing respiratory distress syndrome than babies born vaginally at a similar gestational age.
Premature birth, birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy, is the leading cause of newborn death and one million babies worldwide die each year as a result of their early birth.
Babies who survive an early birth often face the risk of lifelong health challenges, such as breathing problems, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities and others.
The March of Dimes argues that if a pregnancy is healthy and there are no complications that require an early delivery, women should wait until labour begins on its own, or until at least 39 weeks of pregnancy. Many of the baby’s important organs, including the brain and lungs, are not completely developed until then.
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‘too posh to push’? Still don’t get it
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Isn’t this old news?
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Extremely insensitive headline here… not only here tho, on another few paper’s websites and on Sky news site too…..
Absolutley shocking that sensationalist headline can be used like this.
If any woman was having their baby before 34 wks the least they’d be worried about is being “too posh to push”
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I challenge you to find a UK surgeon who has EVER delivered a baby at 34 weeks because a mother didn’t fancy a natural delivery. The headline on this article is a disgrace, and hugely insensitive to mothers who have been forced to deliver their babies early as a result of premature labour or serious medical conditions. The study is useful, and the statistical information gathered may assist doctors in the decision-making process when an early delivery is required, but usually they will be considering a wide range of advantages and disadvantages for both of the delivery options, of which increased risk of respiratory distress is only one. Change the headline DM, this one is a new low.
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No one has a baby delivered before 34 weeks because they are too posh to push. Babies are delivered before 34 weeks on Doctor’s advise because there is a problem. This headline should be changed immediately.
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Do you even read your own reports before putting the phrase ‘too posh to push’ in to EVERY article on caeseareans?
There is no suggestion in the research reported here that any of these babies were delivered weeks early due to their parents’ preference for a c-section. The c-section babies were not developing normally -they were unusually small for the stage of pregnancy. In such cases, parents are often advised (by medically trained professionals) that it would be better to get the baby out alive and get some nutrition in to it outside the womb rather than continue the pregnancy. The doctors’ advice may be not be sound-THAT’S what the research is about, the possibility that women are being advised to have surgical interventions that neither they nor their baby need.
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Yawn
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Is this for real? Babies are only delivered at 34 weeks when there’s a medical reason. Really wish the DM would stop printing these nasty and factually wrong stories.
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The headline is so misleading, and does not relate to the article or the research. Typical judging mothers again for no reason!
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Well this is a bit of rubbish isn’t it? Planned C sections never happen at 34 weeks. C sections then would only occur if something was going wrong. Small for dates babies are ill. If left undelivered they might just have died.
So not “too posh to push” at all is it?
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