报告调查了九个亚洲国家后声称，不必要的剖腹产比顺产费用更高，并且增加了产妇患并发症的风险。

Unnecessary C-sections are costlier than natural births and raise the risk of complications for the mother, said the report surveying nine Asian nations.

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在此之前，剖腹产手术普遍只在产妇死去或者快要死的时候才做。

Prior to that, C-sections were generally performed only when the mother was dead or dying.

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之后我才知道这只是手术中的老把戏，用剖腹产来吓唬双胞胎产妇以使她用力产出第二个孩子，金博士坚持说这次可没玩把戏。

I later learned that it's an old obstetric trick to threaten the mother of twins with a C-section in order to get her to push out the second baby, but Dr. Gold insisted he wasn't playing that game.

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