Pregnant women over 40 are three times more likely to carry out a caesarean section

Norwegian researchers found that pregnant women over 40 the risk of cesarean section for medical reasons Indicators childbirth triples. In general, the age of the future mother is an indicator of how much it expects to complications during birth child.

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Pregnant over 40 tripled most are in need of Emergency caesarean section . Age mother also increasingly demand and other aid childbirth, such as the use of epidural anesthesia. In expectant mothers over the age of 20 need for that and other much smaller. This conclusion Researchers from the Norwegian Women's Health Resource Center.

They followed 000 women for 170, whose pregnancy was normal, and who do not expect any special complications during childbirth. It was found that the older the expectant mother, the higher the the risk of these complications, and age already be assigned to one of the main factors risk. It should be noted that over the past 30 years the number of women over 40 who decided to birth of a child in England alone has quadrupled.

So, if in 1982 the women of in this age group was 6,519 births, which accounted for about 1% of all births in England and Wales for the year, then in 2012 this figure rose to 29 994 4%. At the same time, every fourth birth in women older than 40 to pass using caesarean section . Norwegian researchers found that age mothers emergency cesarean section   produced a 22, 4% of cases.

The girls from 20 to 24 extra cesarean performed at 6, 7%, and by age 25 to 29 - 16, 2%. Most Common causes of cesarean births are complicated or fetal distress. (READ MORE)

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