Objective: To document frequency and identify risk factors associated with early delivery in women who require caesarean section prior to their planned elective caesarean section date. Additionally, we compared the maternal and neonatal outcomes for those women booked for an elective caesarean section who did and who did not require delivery prior to their booked elective caesarean section (BEC...

OBJECTIVE Current guidelines call for HIV-infected women to deliver via scheduled Caesarean when the maternal HIV viral load (VL) is >1,000 copies/ml. We describe the mode of delivery among HIV-infected women and evaluate adherence to relevant recommendations. STUDY DESIGN We performed a population-based surveillance analysis of HIV-infected pregnant women in Philadelphia from 2005 to 2013, c...

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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reproductive outcome and the mode of delivery in subsequent pregnancies after instrumental vaginal delivery in theatre or caesarean section at full dilatation. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Two urban hospitals with a combined total of 10 000 deliveries a year. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of 393 women with term, singleton, cephalic pregnancies who needed oper...

Caesarean delivery can improve maternal and child health, and even save lives. But the past two decades have brought a sharp growth in caesareans in many nations, raising concerns about unnecessarily high rates. Caesarean delivery onmaternal request is relatively rare in the UK (1-2% of births) and US (3% of births). But in some middle income countries the rate is high and growing (20% of birth...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between postpartum urinary tract infection and intended mode of delivery as well as actual mode of delivery. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS All live births in Denmark between 2004 and 2010 (n=450 856). Births were classified by intended caesarean delivery (n=45 053) or intended vaginal delivery (n=405 803), and by actual mod...

BACKGROUND Caesarean section might increase the incidence of surgical interventions and problems resulting from hospitalization and thus affecting quality of life in women after delivery. This study aimed to compare quality of life in women after normal delivery and caesarean section. METHODS This was a prospective study. A sample of women with normal delivery and caesarean section from 5 hea...

background: the postpartum period is a critical life event for women leading physical, emotional, and social changes. postpartum quality-of-life may be affected by delivery mode. the purpose of this study was to determine the association between postpartum health related quality-of-life (hrqol) and mode of delivery. materials and methods: in a prospective study, 300 women consisting of 150 vagi...

OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the preferences of pregnant women in the public and private sector regarding delivery in Brazil. DESIGN Face to face structured interviews with women who were interviewed early in pregnancy, about one month before the due date, and about one month post partum. SETTING Four cities in Brazil. PARTICIPANTS 1612 pregnant women: 1093 public patients and 519 priv...

A hospital-based, prospective cohort study was conducted at the tertiary care university hospital in southern Thailand, between 1 November 2001 and 31 December 2003. The purpose of this study was to compare the various complications found in vaginal and caesarean deliveries based on the original elected intended mode of delivery. There were a total of 1,429 cases, 1,242 intended vaginal deliver...