Because of these risks, doctors will generally not agree to
do vaginal breech births, and will instead insist on delivering the baby by c - section as it is safer for both the mother and the baby.
Not exact matches
Second, hospital - based midwives
do not have a universal mandate that prevents them from attending
vaginal breech births.
Your practitioner may be skilled at
vaginal breech birth or refer you to someone who is, if you are a good candidate, while others may suggest a cesarean
birth if your baby
does not turn.
Later, it turned out the research said that
vaginal birth for
breeches should only be
done in hospital where interventions could be resorted to in a timely fashion if
vaginal birth failed which it
did for Sara.
But having risks in a
vaginal birth does not erase the risks of cesarean
birth, which are also higher for
breech babies than for vertex babies.