Improving Birth Rate in Iran with Minimizing Cesarean Deliveries: Less Maternal Mortality and Better Health and Education for the Next Generation

Although birth is a physiological process in human life, it has once been associated with a high rate of mortality both to the mother and fetus. Cesarean delivery has been introduced to the medical practice to decrease both the mentioned deaths. This surgical procedure decreases maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity in certain complicated pregnancies. However, in Iran, cesarean delivery has become more a luxury procedure that is mostly proposed by gynecologists to mothers, without explanation on the procedures’ potential harms. In fact, in several cases this is not just a suggestion, and mothers leave with no other choice getting informed that if they want vaginal delivery, they should find some physician else. This obstacle is not only observed in our country, and in Southern Italy, where the cesarean delivery rate is too much high has reportedly the same problem