New research has just emerged suggesting that c-sections in pre-term babies may have contributed to their breathing difficulties. The new finding was just delivered this week, at the March of Dimes’ Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 32nd Annual Meeting in Texas by Heather Lipkind, M.D. assistant professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine who conducted the research with her co author Erika Werner, M.D. Assistant Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at John Hopkins.
The March of Dimes reports that the evidence discovered by Dr. Werner and Dr. Lipkind, based on birth certificate and discharge information for 2,560 small for gestational age babies who were delivered preterm, propose “that babies who were delivered before 34 weeks of pregnancy had 30 percent higher odds of developing respiratory distress syndrome than babies born vaginally at a similar gestational age.”
The March of Dimes Deputy Medical Director, Diane Ashton, M.D., MPH is quoted by March of Dimes, “These findings overturn conventional wisdom that c-sections have few or no risks for the baby and are consistent with the March of Dimes effort to end medically unnecessary deliveries before 39 weeks of pregnancy,”
The March of Dimes will have their March for Babies in Phoenix on April 14, 2012 at Wesley Bolin Plaza where they invite people to join them by supporting the March of Dimes mission in preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality with a beautiful walk and post-walk celebration with food, music and more.
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