One woman in 10 in North Devon is now choosing to give birth by caesarean.Of the 1,454 births in North Devon in 2015/16, 156 were delivered by elective C-section - meaning that 10.8% of all births in the area last year involved the mother choosing to have the operation rather than give birth naturally.A total of 885 women elected for a C-section in Devon in 2015/16, equating to 11.6% of all births in the county.The figures, released by NHS Digital, reveal that this gradual rise in the number of...
