Every third German baby is born by caesarean section
The Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden announced on Monday a new report on birth statistics. Thus, almost one in three children in Germany is now the world by caesarean section. Between 1991 and 2010 the proportion of cesarean births from 15.3 to 31.9 percent has more than doubled. Compared to 2009 the proportion rose by 0.6 percentage points to 209 441 caesarean sections. 20 years earlier had been counted only 126 297 births by caesarean section.
Other techniques are used only rarely: A suction cup was in 2010, only 5.3 percent of births used a forceps to 0.6 percent. The probability of a Caesarean section is in the states vary widely. Based on the number of births proportionately the most Caesarean sections were performed in Saarland (36.6 percent), followed by Rhineland-Palatinate (34.8 percent) and Ontario (34.2 percent). In Saxony (22.9 percent) took place very few caesarean delivery.
Planned and unplanned cesareans keep the scale in Germany, such as data of BQS Institute for Quality and Patient Safety show in Dusseldorf. The most frequent indications for a planned caesarean section is that the woman already had a caesarean section. If surgery is spontaneously during birth, most are poor heart sounds the child's cause.
"A Caesarean section is the safer option," Petra Kolip, says Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Bielefeld and author of a large Caesarean section study. Prof. Ulrich Gembruch of the University of Bonn, a board member of the German Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, explains the rising caesarean section rate with the higher average age of women giving birth: The older the women, the more they are at risk pregnant women.
"It made far more caesarean sections than necessary," however, Susanne Steppat, member of the German Confederation of Midwives believes. A cesarean section was easier for hospitals to plan, but for mothers and children are the worse alternative. The World Health Organization WHO has only a C-section rate of 10 to 15 percent for medically necessary. Prof. Gembruch does not consider it useful to keep the number of Caesarean sections as low as possible, the price would be more ill or even dead children.
Other techniques are used only rarely: A suction cup was in 2010, only 5.3 percent of births used a forceps to 0.6 percent. The probability of a Caesarean section is in the states vary widely. Based on the number of births proportionately the most Caesarean sections were performed in Saarland (36.6 percent), followed by Rhineland-Palatinate (34.8 percent) and Ontario (34.2 percent). In Saxony (22.9 percent) took place very few caesarean delivery.
Planned and unplanned cesareans keep the scale in Germany, such as data of BQS Institute for Quality and Patient Safety show in Dusseldorf. The most frequent indications for a planned caesarean section is that the woman already had a caesarean section. If surgery is spontaneously during birth, most are poor heart sounds the child's cause.
"A Caesarean section is the safer option," Petra Kolip, says Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Bielefeld and author of a large Caesarean section study. Prof. Ulrich Gembruch of the University of Bonn, a board member of the German Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, explains the rising caesarean section rate with the higher average age of women giving birth: The older the women, the more they are at risk pregnant women.
"It made far more caesarean sections than necessary," however, Susanne Steppat, member of the German Confederation of Midwives believes. A cesarean section was easier for hospitals to plan, but for mothers and children are the worse alternative. The World Health Organization WHO has only a C-section rate of 10 to 15 percent for medically necessary. Prof. Gembruch does not consider it useful to keep the number of Caesarean sections as low as possible, the price would be more ill or even dead children.
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