We don’t have a great way of knowing the optimal c-section rate. But plotting national c-section rates against perinatal outcomes (an obviously imperfect approa

We don’t have a great way of knowing the optimal c-section rate. But plotting national c-section rates against perinatal outcomes (an obviously imperfect approach) shows that increasing c-section rates are associated with significantly better outcomes until about 20% after which there is no real effect one way or another. http://www.skepticalob.com/2015/12/world-health-organizations-optimal-c-section-rate-officially-debunked.html http://www.skepticalob.com/2015/12/world-health-organization... I’m not sure why it would be “horrifying” what kind of birth a hospital labels natural. It’s all bullshit anyway. No births in a hospital are like births in nature, which is why so many more babies survive the experience these days.