[uuilly]

Difference is you can't "hold in" a pre-term birth b/c you're afraid of covid.

[nostromo]

Half of premature babies are delivered via c-section and many more are induced, usually because there is some risk to the mother or baby at holding the baby to term.

[wahern]

Such as inducement for preeclampsia, which in prior years accounted for ~15% of premature births in the U.S.: https://www.marchofdimes.org/complications/preeclampsia.aspx

Like with coronary and cardiovascular diseases, I imagine long-term impacts won't be known for several years.

[mensetmanusman]

c-sections are money makers, we left our hospital in Boston when we found they had a 50% c-section rate, ha

[DangitBobby]

I find it doubtful that the people researching this phenomenon didn't think of that, don't you?

[mam2]

I think the surprising truth is that women may, inconsciously or to some extent, influence the time of birth.

If you look at the distribution of birth per calendar days there are unusual spikes and distributions on special days such as valentines day and i'm not sure this could explain by people deciding to have specifically more sex 9 month before considering the "supposed" randomness of the day of birth aound the 9 month mark..

http://thedailyviz.com/2016/09/17/how-common-is-your-birthda...

[purple-again]

I could be wrong but I thought that was explained by c section scheduling. Doctors love nothing more than a tight schedule and birth is anything but that.

[OJFord]

But you can 'hold in' cancer?

[williamdclt]

It's not about cancer deaths, it's cancer diagnoses. Don't go to the hospital/doctor => no diagnosis