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Monday, December 01, 2003Doctors at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge, England, who studied data on 120,000 births in Scotland between 1992 and 1998, found that stillbirths were higher among women who had previously had a child by Caesarean section. 'Delivery by Caesarean section in the first pregnancy could increase the risk of unexplained stillbirth in the second,' Gordon Smith, who headed the research team, said Friday in a report in The Lancet medical journal. 'Our best estimate is that for every 1,000 women with a previous Caesarean section, there will be one additional stillbirth in comparison if they hadn't had a previous Caesarean section,' he added in an interview. Here's what the study found (requires free registration): For 120,633 singleton second births, there were 68 antepartum stillbirths in 17,754 women previously delivered by caesarean section (2·39 per 10 000 women per week) and 244 in 102,879 women previously delivered vaginally (1·44; p<0·001). That's a stillbirth rate of 0.4% for mothers who had prior caesarean deliveries and of 0.2% for mothers who haven't. Well, at least they aren't writing that the risk is doubled. My humble advice, don't blame yourself if you've had a C-section and a subsequent stillbirth. With or without C-sections, the risk is pretty small. posted by Sydney on 12/01/2003 07:53:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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