The new decision to offer vaginal breech birth aligns with the SOGC promotion of normal childbirth - spontaneous labour, followed by a delivery that is not assisted by forceps, vacuum or cesarean ...

The Term Breech Trial was a large multicentre, international randomized controlled trial that was conducted to determine whether planned cesarean was safer than planned vaginal birth for the delivery ...

Planning for a vaginal birth may result in an emergency cesarean section, which carries higher risks for the mother than if an elective cesarean had been undertaken. 3, 14 For a term pregnancy with a ...

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When a vaginal delivery is an option, breech births should be done in a hospital, the society recommended, as some will still require a C-section, the group noted.

The delivery position used by a doctor for a baby boy who was in a breech position was a "very unusual practice", an expert has told an inquest. Dr Rohit Sharma delivered Troy Brady at Craigavon ...

Breech, which make up 4 per cent of total births, means the baby comes out bottom first. A breech birth is difficult because the bottom doesn't widen the birth canal as much as head-first delivery.

Vaginal breech delivery virtually stopped in Canada around 2000 after research connected it to higher risks of complications. In 2009, new evidence led the Society of Obstetricians and ...

Women with breech presentation, reassuring fetal heart rate tracings, and no contraindications to vaginal delivery at 36 weeks' gestation and beyond are usually candidates for ECV.

She added: "In my experience an all-fours breech delivery is a very unusual practice." The obstetrician also told the court that she questioned Dr Sharma's experience.