C-Section Rates in Oklahoma

So, it appears that the c-section rate in Oklahoma is high, but still not as high as Ann suggested.  She may be right about area hospitals, that I can't figure out for sure without calling and I kind of doubt I'd get the truth either way.  Anway, in the county my sister is delivering in, it's 34% (all stats are of live births only) In the county I'm delivering in, it's about 31%.  In the state, it's 33.8%

 

I find those rates disturbing even though it's now much closer to the national average.  About 5 years ago there was a report stating Oklahoma was well above the national average.  Now we're just par.

 

Thanks to a cafemom member who found and shared this link with me:  http://www.ok.gov/health/pub/wrapper/ok2share.html  All kinds of Oklahoma statistics can be found here.  Very cool