NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Attempting to aid a difficult childbirth with forceps instead of immediately performing a C-section may not raise the risks to the baby in most cases, a new study suggests.

Children born via operative vaginal delivery and second-stage cesarean delivery (SSCD) generally had comparable long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes, but for two exceptions. Kids born via vacuum ...

June 5 (UPI) --A study by the University of British Columbia shows midpelvic forceps and vacuum deliveries have higher rates of maternal, infant trauma compared to cesarean-sections. "It is important ...

Researchers from Norway found that women with a pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) of 40 had an increased risk of vacuum extraction delivery or Cesarean section (C-section). Findings of a new study ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — The U.S. has about 10,000 births per day, and about 32% of those births are via cesarean section, or C-section. If that number feels high for you, you’re not alone.

Read before the Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Massachusetts Medical Society at its Annual Meeting, June 17, 1930, at Plymouth. Good — Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Tufts College ...