Gentle C-Sections

Guest: Bill Camann, MD, Director of Obstetric Anesthesia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Co-author of “Easy Labor: Every Woman's Guide to Choosing Less Pain and More Joy During Childbirth”  Hazard a guess at what you think might be the most common surgery in America? Tonsil removal? Appendectomy?  It’s actually the cesarean section – about 1 in 3 babies in America is delivered by C-section. Public health officials are working to bring that rate down because of the risks associated with caesarean section. But there’s also a trend – in cases where a C-section is unavoidable – toward making it a better experience for the mother and child. They’re called “family centered C-sections” by some. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, they call the procedure a “gentle C-section.”