There's more than one incision in a caesarean birth — and what’s beneath the skin could shape your future pregnancies.

Although the Royal College of Obstetricians gives no strict limit, Dr Lalani says shorter gaps of less than twelve months ...

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...