11/09/2025
This isn’t necessarily ‘a cause for concern’?! WTF And to disagree that C sections aren’t more risky?! STOP 🛑
This report focuses on the rise of Caesarean births being due to ‘obesity, older women, global majority women, poverty, maternal diabetes and pre-existing medical conditions’ and (unsurprisingly) entirely omits the realities behind these outcomes.
Women and birthing folk are being harangued into inductions and other interventions, being continually shoehorned unnecessarily into high risk categories..and now it’s their fault. For being older, for being brown or black, for being poor or overweight. STOP 🛑
‘The proportion of babies born (by C section) in England, Scotland and Wales has risen from 25% in 2015-16 to 38.9% in 2023 according to the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit.’
Dr Shuby Puthussery, an associate professor in maternal and child health at the University of Bedfordshire, said: “It’s worrying that over 50% of births involved medical intervention. But it’s linked to a broader demographic trend.
We see a rather worrying trend of births to [older] women increasing year by year, along with significant increases in factors such as obesity, maternal diabetes and pre-existing medical conditions, leading to more complex medically assisted births, especially among women from ethnic minority groups and those living in poverty.”
Yes but WHY is that?!
Prof Asma Khalil, the vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), disagreed that a caesarean increases the risk faced by women.
“Caesarean births are common and the steady increase isn’t necessarily a cause for concern 🤯 as long as future services are well-prepared to adapt and ensure they have the right staffing, training and facilities to manage increasingly complex births.
“The caesarean birthrate in England has steadily increased over the past decade. One factor in this is the increasing proportion of pregnancies that are complex.
“We are seeing national rising rates of obesity and people choosing to have children at a later stage in their life, both of which can increase the chance of complications.” 🤬
