By Nicholas Sparks. Has anyone read this? I thought it's possibly his best one I've read yet. But I just can't understand why they couldn't do a caesarean . At 36 weeks they said they wouldn't do a caesarean as it's too risky. They class 37 weeks as full term so I don't think it would have that risky (and considering the alternative of course). I know it's fiction and everything but I just can't understand that