Doctors: C-sections to be more common due to women's age and obesity

Czech doctors warn that the number of births carried out by a Caesarean section is likely to grow in the future due to the increasing obesity of mothers and the fact that women give birth later in life. At the present time, one in four births in Czechia are by C-section, which is up to four times riskier than natural childbirth.

The number of caesarean sections in Czechia had been increasing since the 1990s, but it has stagnated in recent years. According to doctors, the number of obese people reached 28 percent in 2020, compared to 14 percent in 2000. More than half of women are currently overweight, and about a fifth are obese.