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by MarkSweep 1414 days ago
Caesarean-section removed this constraint. Since it was introduced, the number of births requiring a C-section due to size have increased:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38210837
1 comments
uoaei 1414 days ago
> number of births requiring a C-section

Slippery metric. "Requiring" seems hard to isolate vs other options like "elected to use".

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ColanR 1414 days ago
Yeah. If there's an evolutionary aspect to the increase, we should expect to see c-sections as a generational phenomena, and correlated with cranium size. I wonder if that study has been done.
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Normille 1414 days ago
>... other options like "elected to use"...

Supposedly more common as a choice amongst higher income women. Hence the phrase "Too posh to push"

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