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Hello, good afternoon everyone, thank you for coming.
My name is Emma and I am going to be explaining my EPQ topic of elective caesareans and whether I think they should be considered ethical by society.
Here is an overview of the three main types of births. Natural, operative and the surgical birth otherwise known as a caesarean.

In case you are unfamiliar with these terms these slides summarise each type. However elective caesareans are my focus which
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During this project, I was successful in contacting a local midwife at Epsom hospital as part of my research. This was very useful because I was able to access recent and relevant statistics in my local area to build my argument.
Analysing this showed me that natural deliveries are balanced against medical births. Thus, 50% of births stray away from the traditional route. Elective C are still increasing, despite it still being relatively low we should still recognise the important
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When starting this project I had many questions as to whether it was a dangerous trend and if we are unethically putting mothers at a greater risk by ignoring scientific advice and placing them under more stress of having the surgery and recovery. While a
Or arguably is the elective nature of this surgery justified as they allow women to have a voice in their birth, and we should ethically give them a choice in their experience.

Ultimately, we need to find the correct balance
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The reasons behind deciding this topic stems from my interests in childbirth that pre-existed before my research. I've channelled my fascination of the history and development of childbirth by watching call the midwife.
I choose it to advance my knowledg
Through my journey, I centred my argument around ethics as opposed to science to generate personal challenges. I am unfamiliar with ethics, thus wasn't confident when starting my research, yet I saw this an opportunity to explore a different perspective a
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Progressing further to answer my own questions I carried out surveys for mithers who have natural and elective C-sections. Reviewing their responses highlighted to me that they were inline with the scientific evidence of natural births having a better rec
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During this project, I was successful in contacting a local midwife at Epsom hospital as part of my research. This was very useful because I was able to access recent and relevant statistics in my local area to build my argument.

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Analysing this showed me that natural deliveries are balanced against medical births. Thus, 50% of births stray away from the traditional route. Elective C are still increasing, despite it still being relatively low we should still recognise the important

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When starting this project I had many questions as to whether it was a dangerous trend and if we are unethically putting mothers at a greater risk by ignoring scientific advice and placing them under more stress of having the surgery and recovery. While a

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The reasons behind deciding this topic stems from my interests in childbirth that pre-existed before my research. I've channelled my fascination of the history and development of childbirth by watching call the midwife.
I choose it to advance my knowledg

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Progressing further to answer my own questions I carried out surveys for mithers who have natural and elective C-sections. Reviewing their responses highlighted to me that they were inline with the scientific evidence of natural births having a better rec

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