{"id":53948,"date":"2026-06-05T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/one-in-four-births-in-england-are-now-emergency-caesareans-bbc-analysis-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:12:05","slug":"one-in-four-births-in-england-are-now-emergency-caesareans-bbc-analysis-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/one-in-four-births-in-england-are-now-emergency-caesareans-bbc-analysis-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"One in four births in England are now emergency caesareans, BBC analysis shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Prof Marian Knight, director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, which researches the care of women and babies in pregnancy and birth, says the rise represents a &#8220;total change in how women give birth&#8221; in England, and that it has not been replicated in other European countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqxpxjrqd1po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Marian Knight, director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, which researches the care of women and babies in pregnancy and birth, says the rise represents a &#8220;total change in how women give birth&#8221; in England, and that it has not been replicated in other European countries. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2126,173,12999,15427,755,278,4591],"class_list":["post-53948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-analysis","tag-bbc","tag-births","tag-caesareans","tag-emergency","tag-england","tag-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53950,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53948\/revisions\/53950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}