1.   After all, how was I going to deliver a breech baby?

2.   Doctors at Mass General generally refuse to deliver a breech baby vaginally because they consider it too risky.

3.   Instead of the head presenting first, as in a normal pregnancy, breech babies present their buttocks first.

4.   They were breech babies, born feet first.

5.   Researchers assigned half of them to undergo a C-section and the other half to give birth vaginally, with a doctor experienced in delivering breech babies by their side.

6.   The researchers even gave vaginal birth the best opportunity to look good by analyzing separately if it made a difference how expert the doctor was at delivering breech babies.