Women are designed to deliver vaginally and not by cesarean section: An obstetrician's view

Neonatology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 8-13

  Visser, Gerard H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; Cesarean section; Childhood obesity; Iatrogenic preterm delivery; Maternal morbidity mortality; Neonatal immune development; Neonatal morbidity

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL COMPLICATION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; NEONATAL COMPLICATION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OBSTETRICIAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PROGENY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; MATERNAL WELFARE; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TIME;

EID: 84918828558     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000365164     Document Type: Review

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