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Changing trends in delivery patterns: a review of international data

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2001

Simon Nicholson  and
Gillian McIlwaine
Simon Nicholson
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics, University of Edinburgh
Gillian McIlwaine
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics, University of Edinburgh
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Abstract

In the Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and Ireland (August 1878), Dr Hamilton from Falkirk, Scotland wrote an article entitled “mortality in childbed statistics”. Quoting a Dr Murphy, he stated that “in 75,911 cases of midwifery occurring in British practice, there were 138 forceps cases, and in thirty five of these, or one in every four, the child was stillborn”. Then, as now, obstetricians were discussing intervention during labour and were divided in their views, with one side claiming that intervention caused fetal loss, while the other side being convinced that only by intervention would lives of mothers and babies be saved.

Type
Research Article
Information
Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , May 2001 , pp. 81 - 92
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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