New researches Show Women who choose to have their babies delivered via repeat cesarean at 37 or 38 weeks without a medical or obstetric indication, up to two times may Face serious complications for their child including respiratory distress resulting in mechanical ventilation and NICU admission,

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A major reason of cesarean deliveries is elective cesareans can be scheduled to accommodate patient and physician convenience (the rate of it increase from 20.7 percent in 1996 to 31.1 percent in 2006 in Usa)

The researchers looked at whether an infant who was delivered at 37 weeks later died or was diagnosed with a number of conditions, including respiratory distress syndrome and transient tachypnea of the newborn, newborn sepsis, necrotizing entercolitis, seizures, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, , was admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit or required prolonged hospitalization.

Of the 13,258 women who repeat cesarean operation, as many as 35.8 percent were delivered before 39 weeks. Babies born at 37 weeks, were two times more likely to suffer with conditions common to babies born too soon, and at 38 weeks, they were one and a half times more likely.

Unfortunately these repeat cesarean are associated with a preventable increase in neonatal morbidity