Some babies are born bottom-first because of genetic traits inherited from either their mother or father, Norwegian researchers have said.
The British Medical Journal reports the Norwegian studies which have accumulated data on around 387 000 births between 1967 and 2004. and have concluded that babies had double or more chance of being breech born if their mother, father or both also shared the trait.
Newborns are typically supposed to be born head-first whereas breech births, studies confer happen one in twenty deliveries, where often many complications arise including the increased chance of breathing problems at the moment of delivery. For this reason, many women with full-term breech babies opt for caesarean sections.
All in all, although a mother and baby should in fact have a safe birth if recieving thorough antenatal care, the studies have proved interesting to the medical health society and the fast-paced world of genetics and could even give insight into preventing the complications that do arise with breech births.
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