In fact, the report "Impact of Cesarean Operations on the Health of New Mothers," presented by NTU public health department teaching assistant Huang Chun-yuan and based on a survey of 500 births from December 1994 through February 1995, estimates that half of the Cesarean births were performed because of traditional Chinese fortune-telling beliefs, in order to give the child "good luck."
事實上，一份由台灣大學公共衛生系助教黃俊元所作的「剖腹產對產婦健康之影響」報告，曾針對台大醫院一九九四年十二月到一九九五年二月約五百名生產個案做調查，統計發現有將近一半的剖腹產婦是基於中國傳統命理觀念，要讓孩子有個「好命」。