Season 1 · Episode 46
Episode 046: Using Midwives to Lower the C/Section Rate with Dr. John LaGrand
For women, a very scary and anxious time of their life is pregnancy. With it comes excitement, fear, and all the physical and hormonal changes that add to the stress. Often at the top of all these concerns is how their day of labor and...
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Show Notes
For women, a very scary and anxious time of their life is pregnancy. C/sections are a very common procedure in the US for women constituting 33% of all live births.
However, my guest Dr. John LaGrand's practice, in which he works collaboratively with four certified nurse midwives (CNMs), he believes is a different way to practice obstetrics and has led to a c/section rate of only 5%.
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