Breech Delivery
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Breech Delivery Incidence
Facts about a breech delivery:
About 3 or 4 out of every 100 babies are delivered in the breech position.
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Breech Delivery Risk Factors
Related Topics:
Pregnancy complications serious breech delivery
Pregnancy physiology step 9 labor and delivery
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Abdominal pain over 20 weeks pregnant
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Last Updated: Mar 4, 2008
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Stephen J. Schueler, MD
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John H. Beckett, MD
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D. Scott Gettings, MD
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Breech Delivery References:
Doyle NM, Riggs JW, Ramin SM, Sosa MA, Gilstrap LC. Outcomes of term vaginal breech delivery. Am J Perinatol. 2005 Aug;22(6):325-8.
Ghosh MK. Breech presentation: evolution of management. J Reprod Med. 2005 Feb;50(2):108-16.
Hofmeyr GJ. Interventions to help external cephalic version for breech presentation at term. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;(1):CD000184.