In contrast to the increasingly intervention-heavy and divided American childbirth scene, The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada has released new guidelines recommending vaginal birth for breech babies.
Released yesterday, the guidelines are a response to new evidence that shows many women are safely able to vaginally deliver babies who enter the birth canal with the buttocks or feet first.
With the release of the new guidelines, the SOGC will launch a nationwide training program to ensure that doctors will be adequately prepared to offer vaginal breech births.
The new approach was prompted by a reassessment of earlier trials. It now appears that there is no difference in complication rates between vaginal and cesarean section deliveries in the case of breech births.
Read the full Globe and Mail article here.
A similar article was also published in the Vancouver Sun: Canadian docs to stop automatic C-sections for breech babies
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The article was also in the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Quite impressive, really.
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