There is some presumption that children born by Cesarean section will have a disruption in the learning process, or less intelligent than children who were born via normal processes. This is because although only one-time exposure to the drugs (anesthesia) in the process of cesarean can cause changes in fetal brain cells or newborn child is.

Based on research results published in the journal Anesthesia, exposure to drugs (anesthesia) during a cesarean section would not increase the risk of children affected by disruption in the learning process.

These results published by Dr. Juraj Sprung, and a team from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota who claimed that exposure affected the drug just once before the 4-year-old will not increase the risk of children having problems in learning before the age of 19 years.

"But if the children are exposed to the drug repeatedly then the risk will increase," said Dr. Juraj Sprung, as quoted from Reuters.

The study involved 497 children born through cesarean section in 193 women using general anesthesia and 302 women using local anesthesia. Obtained 19.4 percent of children born from general anesthesia impaired in the learning process and 15.4 percent of children born to local anesthetic process impaired in the learning process. So, it does not mean all the children born by Cesarean section have a disruption in the learning process.

Sprung provide hypotheses possible impaired children in the learning process due to drug use during cesarean section is smaller in children born to mothers who use a local anesthetic, because the pain through the spine much more thorough. Actions performed a cesarean section is usually caused by a disturbance in the fetus or the mother that could endanger them if it is done through the normal process.