Women have been giving birth the old-fashioned way for millions of years. What changed in the last decade? A C-Section should only be done when it's needed.

Some women can not bear a child due to an insufficient opening during child bearing process. These women must have a C-Section. However, new trend is the effort to enhance their appearance rather than medical need.

I always believed c-sections were for mothers with some sort of medical problem, which prohibited natural childbirth.I myself had a c-section with my son-my only child-and never want to experience it ever again.It is painful-major surgery that should not be looked upon lightly. It should only be done in an emergency.

It is rather alarming that so many women are choosing to have c-sections as opposed to having natural births. As far as the 1/3 statistics are concerned, what are these statistics based on? Are these women opting to have c-sections or are their doctors advising them to have c-sections? I, for one, have been told that i will have to have a c-section once the time comes for me to have children. Why? Because i have fibroids and as such, my doctor has already advised that i will be unable to give birth naturally. This is of course very sad news to me because i would love to give birth naturally.

Interestingly enough, i just learned that a friend of mine has huge fibroids but gave birth naturally because she had a midwife as opposed to a "regular" doctor.

So are c-sections a troubling trend? Perhaps so..

Wow, talk about a burden on our healthcare insurance providers. When my daughter was born, 11 out of 12 babies in the nursery were delivered through c-sections.

Hospitals get a whole lot more for performing operations then they do for a natural deliveries.

Plus, new mothers get to stay in the hospital for fives days instead of two.

Great site here. Lots of websites like yours cover subjects that can't be found in magazines and newspapers. I don't know how we got on 10 years ago with just print media.