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Babies born from elective cesarean calmer--study

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Elective cesarean born kids are found to show fewer problems like anxiety, aggression, attention disorders, behavioral, and emotional problems.

The ones born with the help of forceps or a suction cup are almost 40 percent more likely to suffer from these problems, the researchers reveal.

Hormone studies "have indicated that higher cortisol response at birth also increased the risk of subsequent childhood psychopathological problems," the authors wrote.

The study details
The study looked at 4190 children born in China's southern provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

The children, all aged between 4 to 6 years, were tested for problems like being withdrawn, anxious, depressed, attention difficulties, and delinquent and aggressive behavior.

Kids born of cesarean section faced the lowest problems while the ones born normally reported the highest problems.

The researchers link the behavioral problems faced by such kids to high levels of cortisol, a hormone secreted by the body during a stressful birth.

"The association between mode of delivery and subsequent childhood psychopathology is possibly related to cortisol response," the authors wrote in a paper published in 'BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology' on Wednesday.

Cortisol levels are found to be lowest in kids born from elective cesareans, due to the reason that the kids do not have to make their way down the birth canal, unlike babies born normally.

Such births on the rise in China
Cesarean births are on surge in countries like China where the rates of such births has risen to 56 percent in 2006 from 22 percent in 1994.

Professor Philip Steer, BJOG editor-in-chief, said, "With the rising rates of elective caesarean section in China and in other countries, it is interesting to see from this research that there is a low impact on childhood psychopathology.

"Assisted vaginal delivery can be more traumatic for both the mother and child hence the rise in cortisol levels.

"More research is needed however to look at the specific link between assisted delivery such as forceps and psychopathology in children."

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