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Cesareans could make it more difficult to have other children.(Brief Article)
2002 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women having their babies by cesarean section could find it harder to become pregnant later, a study has found. Researchers in Bristol, England, have discovered that once women have had a cesarean and then try to get pregnant again, the risk of it taking more than a year to conceive another baby increases.
The 7000 women were all part of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), popularly known as Children of the 90s, which has monitored the health and development of more than 14,000 families since the early 1990s.
The research from the Bristol University study, published July 2, 2002, in the journal Human Reproduction, found that when women who had previously had a cesarean tried to get pregnant again there was almost double the risk of it taking longer than a year. The risk following cesarean section was 12% compared with 7% for women with no previous cesarean.
The increased risk remained significant even taking into account such important additional factors as the ages of both mother and father, how long they had lived together, oral contraceptive pill use, cigarette exposure, alcohol consumption, educational level and ethnicity.
The rate of cesarean section has risen nationally threefold in the past 25 years without any evidence of improved outcomes for the ...
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