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. |