Ina May Gaskin

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

American Celebrity

Montserrat Caballe

I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don't just get up and sing the day after one of those.

Spanish Musician

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Richard Griffiths

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

English Actor

Simon Callow

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

A caesarean is not a disease or condition but a type of surgery to deliver a baby.

Medical Procedure

Caesareans can be unplanned, usually due to unexpected issues during natural birth.

Not Always Planned

Pronounce it as 'sez-uh-ree-uhn', stressing the first and third syllables.

Pronounced Carefully

As an adjective, it describes the delivery method, not the baby's condition.

Describes Delivery

The term is neutral and does not imply anything negative about the birth.

Neutral Tone

Sometimes written with a hyphen as 'caesarean-section' especially in British English.

Hyphenation Variation

 And when people have done a variety of studies, they have learned things such as, when a baby is born, during vaginal delivery you get colonized by the microbes from your mother. There are risk factors associated with cesarean sections,

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