How we reported our C-section series

Mississippi Today and The Fuller Project requested low-risk C-section data from the Mississippi State Department of Health for every Labor & Delivery hospital in the state from 2014 through 2022. U.S. health agencies, regulatory bodies and the World Health Organization define births low-risk for C-sections as “NTSV” births, or nulliparous (patients with first-time deliveries), term (37-weeks or more gestation), singleton (not multiple births, such as twins), and vertex (in the h