Maternal assisted caesareans - Australian Birth Stories

Maternal assisted caesareans

A small (but growing!) number of obstetricians in Australia offer their patients Maternal Assisted Caesareans (MAC) which is when the birthing mother is scrubbed in and gloved up and has the opportunity to lift her baby out of the womb and onto her chest.

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