Does anyone have access to today's Lancet article on risks to the infant 
from C-sections?  Can you tell us if it includes the risks to breastfeeding? 
(Snippet below)

Jacquie Nutt IBCLC
South Africa (where private patients "elect" surgical delivery almost 
without fail)

The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9691, Pages 675 - 676, 29 August 2009
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61544-0

Elective caesarean sections-risks to the infant
Philip J Steer, Neena Modi
Beena Kamath and colleagues recently reported that, in 2006, 31·1% of births 
in the USA were by caesarean section. Over 80% of women who have had a first 
caesarean section will have a repeat operative delivery, because of the fear 
of scar rupture during normal labour. Although there is concern about this 
high rate of surgical delivery, a consensus group of the US National 
Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2006 found no good evidence of harm to the 
mother from one or even two caesarean sections.  Howe ...

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