C-Section in Multiple Pregnancy
It’s a good question. When we are talking about twins, it’s a decision you are always making
with your physician, but it’s predicated predominantly on the position of the babies in the uterus
and mostly based upon the presentation of the first baby.
So for instance, the woman I am delivering next door, her first baby is head down; her second
baby is breach. In that situation, if you have a patient who is motivated for vaginal delivery and
an operator who is experienced at delivering breach, we will do vaginal deliveries for a second
breach, but the first child’s breach is usually a cesarean delivery.
So for twins, it ends up about 50% of time being a cesarean delivery. For the higher order
multiples, triplets and more, 90% plus end up being cesarean deliveries.
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