{"id":82641,"date":"2025-12-21T21:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82641"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:54:24","slug":"caesarean-sections-overtake-natural-vaginal-births-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/21\/caesarean-sections-overtake-natural-vaginal-births-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesarean sections overtake natural vaginal births for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/8412\/live\/c4dc31f0-db5a-11f0-93d6-1d9639c09cd6.jpg\" alt=\"A pregnant woman waits to give birth lying in a hospital bed, wearing a blue gown and mask, with a tube attached to the back of her hand\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More babies are being born by caesarean section in England than delivered naturally &#8211; without assistance &#8211; for the first time.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yqjezrnj4o\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More babies are being born by caesarean section in England than delivered naturally &#8211; without assistance &#8211; for the first time.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/C-section.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82642,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82641\/revisions\/82642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}