Charité Caesarean Birth Improves Birth Experience in Planned and Unplanned Caesarean Sections While Maintaining Maternal and Neonatal Safety: A Prospective Cohort Study

Planned elective repeat caesarean section versus planned vaginal birth for women with a previous caesarean birth.

BACKGROUND When a woman has had a previous caesarean birth, there are two options for her care in a subsequent pregnancy: planned elective repeat caesarean or planned vaginal birth. While there are risks and benefits for both planned elective repeat caesarean birth and planned vaginal birth after caesarean, current sources of information are limited to non-randomised cohort studies. Studies des...

Caesarean birth.

It has been stated that Julius Caesar had been delivered by this method. This is most unlikely as his mother, Aurelia, was still alive at the time of his invasion of Britain. As the knowledge of anatomy was so poor at that time, it is inconceivable that any woman could have recovered from such crude major surgery.2 In 715 BC, Numa Pompelius, King of Rome, codified the Roman laws. It was forbidd...

Birth after caesarean study – planned vaginal birth or planned elective repeat caesarean for women at term with a single previous caesarean birth: protocol for a patient preference study and randomised trial

BACKGROUND For women who have a caesarean section in their preceding pregnancy, two care policies for birth are considered standard: planned vaginal birth and planned elective repeat caesarean. Currently available information about the benefits and harms of both forms of care are derived from retrospective and prospective cohort studies. There have been no randomised trials, and recognising the...

Birth After Previous Caesarean Birth

Women’s stories of planned Caesarean birth in their first pregnancy

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