The Cesarean section is a surgical procedure to extract the baby of the womb by means of an abdominal incision. At present, in Spain, 1 of every 4 births they take place for Cesarean section, 40 % of the births in private clinics is not natural.

In the intervention, the mother is at all times awake, and selectively anesthetized not to feel pain, therefore it can see and hear to his baby. He consists of practising an incision in the low abdominal area, and other one in the womb. After emptying the bag of amniotic liquid, the baby is extracted.

The intervention generally is realized when the work of the childbearing advances with many slowness, fetal suffering seems to exist or when the mother presents bled vaginal. Often a Cesarean section is needed if the fetus is in position podálica (seated) or transverse (crossed in the womb), or if his head is too big to happen for the maternal pelvis. The births by means of surgery are more probable when it is a question of a big baby or of an inexperienced or ancient mother. Due to this, the increase of the valuations of Caesarean interventions from 1970 reflects partly the proportional increase of the average weight on having been born, the birth of first-born and the tendency to a late maternity. Other raised explanations include the biggest use of the fetal electronic monitoring, the fear of the doctors of the demands for bad practice and the desire to avoid a difficult childbearing.

There exists information that they reflect that the Cesarean section procedure is often unnecessary and even harmful in many cases since there has increased very much the number of cases of vaginal childbearings after a previous Cesarean section. Approximately 4 % of the Cesarean sections takes serious complications as hemorrhages and infections. An important risk can exist for the baby on having obviated the effort to be born, which seemingly stimulates the production of hormones that can contribute in his adaptation to the life out of the womb.

Nevertheless, there are arguments in defense of the Cesarean section since there must be hefted the risks of the vaginal childbearings with help of forceps or sucking, or after a previous Cesarean section. The biggest risk is that all the work of the childbearing is not successful and everything ends in a Cesarean section. The possibilities of a cerebral hemorrhage, for example they are major in a taken control vaginal childbearing or Cesarean section after a time of effort than in a normal vaginal childbearing or a Cesarean section realized before the work of the childbearing.