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How common are C-sections?

611 views · Published 22 June 2011 · 1:10 · Indexed 3 October 2026

Channel: IntermountainParents · 2011 · Education

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In the United States c-sections are overall rising. Over the last five years progressively there has been an increase in the c-section rate. Especially the primary c-section rate, meaning a patient who has come in to have her first baby and ends up having a cesarean. 

We have been fortunate here throughout Intermountain Healthcare and specifically Dixie Regional Medical Center that our c-section rates have remained relatively stable over the last several years despite the nation increase. Currently in our population here at Dixie Regional in a first time mom laboring the primary c-section rate is only 13% which last year was the lowest in the country. 

There are several programs that have been put in place to try and lower that primary c-section rate. For one we don't induce any mother one week before her due date, for elective reasons. And the second is for first time moms we often ask that they go into labor on their own and not be induced unless they get to one week beyond their due date. That's where we've made the biggest difference in hospitals that have a large percentage of inductions the c-section rate and first time moms in some institutions has climbed up to 40%.

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