{"id":230,"date":"2014-01-30T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csections.org\/?p=230"},"modified":"2014-01-30T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T10:01:08","slug":"ideal-gap-between-caesareans-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Ideal gap between caesareans &#8211; new research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by Soroka University indicates that there may be reasons, other than risk of scar rupture, why a longer interval between caesarean births is ideal. Up to now recommendations have suggested that a gap of 15-18 months or more be planned to reduce the likelihood of scar rupture during subsequent pregnancies. However <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"Idea gap between caesareans?\" href=\"http:\/\/informahealthcare.com\/doi\/abs\/10.3109\/14767058.2013.765854\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Kessous et al<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> discovered during their review of 3176 births between 1988 and 2010 that in fact scar rupture was no more likely in any of their groupings (less than 12 months, 13-18 months and more than 18 months gaps).<\/p>\n<p>However they did find an increased likelihood of premature birth in the group of women who had a second caesarean within 12 months of the first. This risk was 12%\u00c2\u00a0 whereas those who waited longer had only a 5% risk.<\/p>\n<p>Premature birth has significant implications for baby in particular. Low birth weight and the immaturity of baby&#8217;s lungs are just two of the complications that can occur and the earlier the baby arrives the more likley they will need assistance in a SCU (Special Care Unit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by Soroka University indicates that there may be reasons, other than risk of scar rupture, why a longer interval between caesarean births is ideal. Up to now recommendations have suggested that a gap of 15-18 months or more be planned to reduce the likelihood of scar rupture during subsequent pregnancies. However Kessous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/?p=230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ideal gap between caesareans &#8211; new research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}