One in Three Women Infertile After Caesarean

Posted by Melissa Maimann on Jan 1, 2010 in Birth, Caesarean, Obstetrics |

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A study … has found that almost half of all women who have a caesarean section … for their first child, don’t have any more children. Of these, one in five have chosen not to have more children because they are too traumatized by the surgery and one in three are physically unable to because of caesarean-caused infertility problems.

The rate of post-traumatic stress disorder was six times higher than in first time mothers who had given birth vaginally …

Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448

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