[ozmidwifery] Twin births

2005-07-07 Thread mh

Hi all,
I'm just curious to hear what the proportion of vaginal births to CS is in 
other hospitals?
I work in a tertiary, high risk Delivery Suite but vaginal birth is accepted 
as the default option for twins as long as the presenting twin is cephalic 
unless there is some problem that would indicate LSCS even in a singleton 
( Placenta praevia etc).
Also a comment I read, can't remember from whom, with in the last week or so 
about 38 weeks being the cut off date for twins- ours regularly go over 40 
weeks in the absence of problems- and mostly, there aren't problems.Even our 
prem twins are born vaginally as the default option. I thought this was 
commonplace nowadays- no?
Monica 



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Re: [ozmidwifery] Twin births

2005-07-07 Thread Andrea Quanchi
Same here and we are level one. So long as presenting twin is cephalic 
everyone is happy to go for the vaginal option although they seem to be 
able to convince the mothers to agree to induction before term.

Andrea Q
On 07/07/2005, at 5:17 PM, mh wrote:


Hi all,
I'm just curious to hear what the proportion of vaginal births to CS 
is in other hospitals?
I work in a tertiary, high risk Delivery Suite but vaginal birth is 
accepted as the default option for twins as long as the presenting 
twin is cephalic unless there is some problem that would indicate LSCS 
even in a singleton ( Placenta praevia etc).
Also a comment I read, can't remember from whom, with in the last week 
or so about 38 weeks being the cut off date for twins- ours regularly 
go over 40 weeks in the absence of problems- and mostly, there aren't 
problems.Even our prem twins are born vaginally as the default option. 
I thought this was commonplace nowadays- no?

Monica

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