The Preliminary Birth Data for 2005 was released this week. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the cesarean rate went up again to 30.2% – a 4% increase over last year alone, but an overall increase in the last 10 years of 46%. Yikes! Am I the only one who thinks it’s heading in the wrong direction? Actually no, I’m not, even the World Health Organization is in my corner this time.
In other birth news, the out-of-wedlock births hit a new record as well, 4 in 10. Though the data doesn’t say who is in a relationship, who is single and planned it this way or even how old the women are…