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Kinds of delivery
Natural deliveryDeliveryThe process of giving birth to a baby.Read more
During a natural delivery the baby is born through the mother’s vaginaVaginaPart of the inner sexual organs of a woman. The vagina connects the…Read more. Most babies are born this way.
Natural delivery: woman giving birth to her baby.
Surgical delivery: caesarean sectionCaesarean sectionA surgical operation performed when a pregnant woman cannot have a natural delivery.…Read more
Surgical delivery is also called caesarean section. The doctorDoctorSomeone who is trained to cure sick people. Doctors can prescribe medicines. A…Read more makes an incision in the mother’s belly to take out the baby. The incision is made just above the pubic hairPubic hairHair on and around the sexual organs. The length, colour, quantity and thickness…Read more.
Surgical delivery: doctor performing a caesarian section.
Reasons for a caesarean section
Some of the most common reasons for a caesarean section are:
- The mother’s pelvisPelvisPart of the body: the curved set of bones between the hips.Read more is too narrow to let the baby through;
- The placentaPlacentaOrgan which grows alongside the foetus in the uterus when a woman is…Read more is in the entrance to the uterusUterusOrgan in a woman's belly in which a foetus can grow.Read more (cervixCervixNarrow entrance at the bottom of the uterus, at the top of the…Read more) or the placenta has become detached;
- Part of the umbilical cordUmbilical cordA sort of tube connecting the foetus to the placenta. The umbilical cord…Read more has come out through the cervix;
- The baby’s head is not lying downwards;
- There is more than 1 baby;
- Mother or child have a diseaseDiseaseWhen someone's body, part of the body or mind no longer functions well.…Read more that makes a natural delivery impossible.