It highlighted the Caesarean period popular at the time.

Women had greater access to microcredit, as well as free caesarean section delivery services in public hospitals.

Unnecessary Caesarean is the name of the campaign launched on the first week of March in Puerto Rico, aiming to curb the very high percentage of caesarean births in the country many of them programmed C sections that don't respond to medical needs.

Turning to the issue of Caesarean section, she said that the National Health Plan 2002 2004 had set a target of reducing the rate of Caesarean section to 20 per cent over the following three years by providing improved prenatal care and better training of personnel and ensuring improved cooperation with social services.

Lastly, there was a need to closely monitor the privatization of health services, including the increasing number of Caesarean sections carried out by private clinics.

The number is seventy in manuscripts in the Alexandrian (such as Codex Sinaiticus) and Caesarean text traditions but seventy two in most other Alexandrian and Western texts.

In these cases the cost of integrated unified hospital treatment according to Ministry of Health price list, came in at 950 euro for natural childbirth and 1,500 euro for birth by Caesarean section.

After the Supreme Court s decision, El Salvador s health minister, Maria Rodriguez, announced that Beatriz would be permitted to undergo a premature Caesarean section, which she said was not an abortion, but an induced birth.

According to the campaign's page, about half of the babies born in Puerto Rico are products of caesarean procedures where the baby is delivered through an incision made in the mothers abdomen and womb instead of a vaginal delivery.

While Caesarean procedures are truly life saving in many cases where there are complications that put the mother or child at risk, performing elective C sections could put the mother and child at higher risk than if she delivered naturally.

In the campaign's hip hop video, some doctors are portrayed as being driven by convenience rather than health when deciding to deliver babies through caesarean sections as a way to treat more women faster than if they had to wait for nature to take its course.

In response to concerns expressed during the consideration of its third periodic report about the high Caesarean rate, the State party had pointed out that measures implemented in the context of the National Health Care Plan for 2002 2004 would result in a decrease in that rate.

These services, based on the concept of informed choice, should include education on safe motherhood, prenatal care that is focused and effective, maternal nutrition programmes, adequate delivery assistance that avoids excessive recourse to caesarean sections and provides for obstetric emergencies referral services for pregnancy, childbirth and abortion complications post natal care and family planning.

She wondered whether any statistics were available in that regard and asked why it had taken so long to implement the measures in question. She also enquired whether any steps had been taken to monitor and regulate the Caesarean rate in certain regions where the procedure was more prevalent and in the private sector.

A woman in the Western world who is delivering in a hospital may leave the hospital as soon as she is medically stable and chooses to leave, which can be as early as a few hours postpartum, though the average for spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD) is 1 2 days, and the average caesarean section postnatal stay is 3 4 days.