Cesarean mothers have triple the risk of hysterectomy for next pregnancy:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=505412&in_page_id=1799#StartComments

Boy, it just keeps getting better and better, don't it?

Wow, go and watch this trailer:

http://www.pregnantinamerica.com/

I'm really jazzed to see this film!  I hope it is at least a semi-major release.  But geez, the stats just in the trailer are scary.  One I already knew is that America is the 2nd worst in the Industrialized world for maternal and newborn care (according to the WHO).  But the one I didn't know, and couldn't have even imagined, is that hospitals get 66%--that's SIXTY-SIX--of their revenue from pregnancies.  Over half!  From what is, in most cultures, a non-medical event!  No wonder the medical establishment is scared shitless of midwifery & homebirth (and are fighting us tooth-n-nail on licensing and such).  Every year more studies come out showing that the medicalization of birth in America is the primary contributor to all the complications, that in countries which rely primarily on midwifey care the results are far better, and that the top 5 countries for maternal and newborn care ALL have a 70+% midwifery care rate.  Hospitals have got to be running scared.  Sooner or later we, as a population, are going to figure out that birth is not a disaster waiting to happen.  Someday, we're gonna take birth back from the doctors.  And women & babies will be healthier and happier.  And the hospitals will have to find a new revenue stream.

Here's some of the new studies out just this week on c-sections:

February 16, 2007
After first cesarean, risks go up in next pregnancy
http://www.sciam. com/article. cfm?chanID= sa003&articleID= 28DC0EF2B70634D0 A45511FFF4F68DB7

Increased Risks Of Planned Cesarean Births Must Be Clearly Conveyed

Article URL: http://www.medicaln ewstoday. com/medicalnews. php?newsid= 62901