C-section is no longer cutting edge

Changes to the rules governing family planning prompted hundreds of thousands of couples to register to have a second child, but a former reliance on cesarean deliveries is causing misery for many, as Yang Wanli reports.

Fang Yan should have had a baby in early July. It would have been the family's second child, conceived after Fang and her husband joined the 700,000 couples that registered to have another child following the 2014 announcement of amendments to China's family planning policy.

The new rules allow couples to have a second baby if one partner, like Fang's husband, is an only child. The couple, both 38, had their first child, a boy, three years ago. In October, they were overjoyed to learn that Fang was pregnant again.