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Can midwives reduce cesarean rates?

19th March 2009 | 0 Comments

Grassroots Network Message 903011 From Citizens for Midwifery: CDC releases birth stats for 2007 Dear Friends, Today the CDC released the Preliminary Data for births in 2007. The birth rate is up, and so is the cesarean section rate, now nearly 32% of all births: “The cesarean delivery rate rose 2 percent in 2007, to [...]