Sentences with phrase «abdominals than safer»

Crunches and sit - ups cause more risk of injury to your lower back, and your neck, and less reward for your abdominals than safer things you should be doing.

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Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

So if I have more than a one in three chance of having abdominal surgery to have a baby, it's hard to say that it's safer to go there than to stay in my home where I have, maybe, a five percent chance of having abdominal surgery.

They usually don't understand the possible implications of the major abdominal surgery, and they often believe that a planned, surgical delivery is safer than vaginal delivery.