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Are we intervening too much in birth?

A quarter of the children born in the UK each year are delivered by caesarean section. The government is attempting to lower that number, but they are being accused of pandering to the natural childbirth lobby by a group called the Birth Trauma Association (BTA) Maureen Treadwell, co-founder of the BTA and Professor Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, debate the pros and cons of a natural birth.

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