{"id":84968,"date":"2026-02-15T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84968"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:14:29","slug":"soaring-obesity-levels-blamed-as-nearly-half-of-births-are-now-by-c-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/soaring-obesity-levels-blamed-as-nearly-half-of-births-are-now-by-c-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring obesity levels blamed as nearly half of births are now by C-section"},"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:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WmETi.img?w=534&amp;h=702&amp;m=6\" alt=\"New figures show that nearly half of all babies are now delivered by C-section\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soaring levels of obesity among pregnant women have seen the rate of caesarean births rise to a record high in Scotland.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/soaring-obesity-levels-blamed-as-nearly-half-of-births-are-now-by-c-section\/ar-AA1WmxZY?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69916dc82b8b4e8b8cb20c5db08a3e59&amp;ei=110\"> Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/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>Soaring levels of obesity among pregnant women have seen the rate of caesarean births rise to a record high in Scotland. 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-84968","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\/84968","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=84968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84969,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84968\/revisions\/84969"}],"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=84968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}