02 August 2015 02 Aug 2015

Vaginal breech births: the debate continues

It is not unusual for me to receive a press release or two a day about a new midwifery study with a headline meant to catch my attention. Most of the time I skim read them for importance and file them away to be read more thoroughly at a later date. However, at the end of last month, my inbox pinged with news of new study published in BJOG about the risks of planned vaginal breech birth compared with planned caesarean section for breech presentation (Berhan and Haileamlak, 2015).