"How Hospitals Shape Birth Outcomes" - In conversation with Dr. Janhavi Nilekani

What if the way you give birth depends on more than what happens inside your body? In some private hospitals across the city, more than half of healthy, low-risk women end up having a C-section. And that raises a difficult question: are these births being shaped only by medical necessity — or also by hospital protocols, attitudes toward labour, timelines, routines, and the culture of the labour ward? Because birth isn't happening in a vacuum. In this conversation with Dr. Janhavi Nilekani, we go behind C-section numbers — to understand where the evidence is being followed, where it may be selectively interpreted, and what families need to know before they walk into the birth room. Not anti-C-section. Pro-informed choice. Labor Culture Survey: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30407... #normalbirth #safebirth #informedchoice #cesarean #birthing