US midwives on CS rates.

• Tenlastelegging: International Midwifery - Cesarean section - Brief Article

Deanne Williams, Executive Director of the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM), has responded vigorously in a letter to the Washington Post Sunday after it published an article on the `virtues' of elective Caesarean section: `When I see birth as it was described in the Sunday Washington Post, I know why women are losing trust in the medical profession. The fact is we do not know if a c-section is as safe as a vaginal birth or if it will prevent incontinence in later life. We do know that incontinence appears to be just as high in women who have never had children as it is in mothers ... We do know that ... the risk of having...