Breech babies have higher risk of death from vaginal delivery compared to C-section

(Wiley) While a rise in cesarean section delivery rates due to breech presentation has improved neonatal outcome, 40 percent of term breech deliveries in the Netherlands are planned vaginal deliveries. According to a new Dutch study that is published today in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, a journal of the Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology, there is a 10-fold increase in fetal mortality in vaginal delivery for breech presentation compared to elective C-s...