Thanks to the prevalence of Caesarean births in modern society, more women with a narrow pelvis are able to pass their genetic code into future generations, according to Austrian researchers.
50 years ago there were 30 out of 1,000 cases where the baby was too big to pass through the birth canal, now the researchers claim its up to 36 out of 1,000.
I did not have diabetes nor a high BMI, but I do have a narrow pelvis. I had two very healthy children by Caesarean section. My mom told me about women back in the day who carried large babies who were dismembered in order to save the mother’s life. 😔 Naturally, I’m grateful for a skilled OB-GYN and two precious babes.
So we should just let those women die in child-birth along with their unborn so narrow pelvises shouldn’t be passed on?
Maybe somebody should do a study on how many dumbasses per 1000 now live in the US vs 60 years ago because of liberal policies that allow/encourages people who do not know which end of a broom goes down to reproduce. (insert Zika Obama picture here)
My son was 10 lbs and let me tell you… the only thing more overrated than ‘natural childbirth’ is the joy of owning your own business!
@Vixen — same here. My first C-section baby was 8 lbs 12 oz and 21 inches long.
My second C-section baby was 9 lbs 9 oz and 23 inches long with a 15 inch head!
The goal is to stop the unnecessary C sects, not the necessary ones. If you don’t think millions have been performed that weren’t needed, you don’t know any honest OB-GYNS or filed insurance at any med facilities. #ChargeDatInsCo #IHaveVacationPlanned
The trick is to induce at some point before full term. There is probably a paper in this practice.
@Frank: I hate to admit this, but I don’t know which end of a broom goes down to reproduce, myself.
I apologize for this to ALL you special mothers. And Thank you for your virtue, your babies, your children, your grand children….your heritage, But………………..I have never been able to get my head back in,… no matter how hard I swam…
I call bullshit.
“… have increased from 30 in 1,000 in the 1960s to 36 in 1,000 births today.”
While the increase from 30/1000 to 36/1000 is significant (20%) two things argue against seeing this as a big deal. The absolute number (30/1000 = 3%) is too small for me to accept the precision of the numbers taken from a basically pre-computer 60’s. Secondly this flies in the face of something we know to be true – people have generally been getting bigger, not smaller, for at least the last couple hundred years. In short, it’s a crap study that shouldn’t be trusted.
Dr. Tar,
I won’t bite on this one! But nice try!
@jclady: My first was 9 lbs. 4 oz. — a very long labor with my son’s shoulders getting stuck while attempting to deliver him. C-section ASAP. My daughter was 8 lbs 9 oz and a scheduled C-section. I’m just not built for childbearing, unfortunately. Grateful for a skilled doctor and modern surgery. My son and I would’ve been a statistic 100 years ago.
Wisdom Mr. Brzezinski, wisdom.
I was born naturally, back in the 50s I was 9 lbs & 22″ …mom was tiny, like 4′ 9″ she never forgave me, in fact there were a couple times I think she tried to murderise me.
I can’t remember if I was cut out or pushed out. I’m gonna call my mama.
Ok, first she told me about being in labor for 3 days, she was only 5 foot 4 inches and 110 lbs…blah blah blah, long story short- 6 lbs, 15″, natural birth.
I Love you mommy! 😀
Just for the record, it was my sister who ruined our mom’s figure.
Thumbing up MJA seems dirty now…..Welcome….
The sister rant makes me want to take it all back…
This could be written about most any attempt to cure childhood disease or improve the human condition. My wife had bladder problems which lead to kidney infections that would have killed her if left untreated. She gave birth to 3 children. One was born with the same condition. A operation corrected it in my daughter when she was two. Nature would have simply eliminated the less than perfect specimen before it could reproduce. We put glasses on children. Poor hunters that can see prey or threats would die early also. We are breeding weak genes into our genetic pool. We should consider it but there isn’t much we can do about it.
That should have read: Poor hunters that can’t see
If a person could take the little lady on a buggy ride to the hospital the percentages would be the same again.
OK…I’ll be the first to say it…Hourglass looks kinda hot!
Boyd. Conrad. Luv ya! Spot on. MJA too!
Need to check with Darwin and his theory of evolution, does it tick over fast as 50 years? We should be looking at fossilized humanoids and measure pelvis width over the eons, bet’cha always getting wider. 50 years pffftt!
The study was performed with a little taxpayer money by a guy who was too inept to get millions of $$$ to “study” globull warming.
My wife was in labor for 30 hours, once my unborn son was in notable distress the decision to go cesarean was made and it was the right decision. It turns out his umbilical cord was wrapped around his belly and he never could have dropped for a natural delivery. I was there for everything and I can’t tell you enough how critical it is to have your babies in a hospital. If we had gone for a Happy Valley Hot Tub delivery I probably would have lost my son and wife both. I’m proud to say after 32 years we are all doing well.
C sections have increased due to increasing law suits. John Edwards (remember that piece of crap) made a living suing doctors claiming children were born with cerebral palsy because a c section was not done. He made millions doing this. Interestingly, c sections increased but the rate of CP did not decrease.