What's a Gentle C Section?

A gentle C-section (also called natural cesarean or family-centered birth) is a surgical birth that incorporates various aspects of an unmedicated vaginal birth.

What is a gentle C?

Also known as a natural cesarean, a gentle c-section is a procedure that makes a cesarean seem less like major abdominal operation and more like a vaginal delivery. “Seem” is the key word here, since the surgical aspect of the procedure is still the same: You're numbed from the rib cage down.

What happens in a gentle C-section?

"In a traditional C-section, the baby is delivered quickly and handed to the pediatricians, but in a gentle C-section, the baby's head is delivered, then slowly the rest of the body is delivered, allowing a bit of a squeeze to get that extra fluid from the lungs expelled, then the baby is placed on the mother's chest ...