Abstract
Unless fetal lung maturity has been confirmed, elective cesarean delivery (CD) before 39 weeks’ gestation is associated with excess risk for neonatal respiratory problems. In an observational study at 19 U.S. centers, infants of women who underwent elective CD from 1999 to 2002 at ≥37 weeks’ gestation were assessed for a primary composite outcome that included any of several events (e.g., death, respiratory-distress syndrome, transient tachypnea of the newborn, hypoglycemia, newborn sepsis, cardiopulmonary resuscitation or …
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