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Delivery Types of Delivery

Types of Delivery

There are two types of delivery; vaginal delivery and operative delivery. The vaginal delivery includes natural childbirth, induced labor and family-participated delivery

Vaginal Delivery

(1) Natural Childbirth: It is to induce childbirth through natural labor pain without additional medical actions.
(2) Induced Labor: It is to induce labor pain in a medical way for vaginal delivery. Mothers who experience premature rupture of membranes, oligohydramnios, or gestational diabetes mostly resort to this method. Medications that induce labor pain include oral medication, vaginal insertion, and blood vessel injection. A specific method will be decided depending on the condition of your uterus entrance.
(3) Family-participated Delivery: It is where a mother’s family participates in the delivery from the beginning to the end. Here, the labor pain room is the delivery room and the mother will stay here until the postpartum acute phase is complete. Families can share the mother’s pain and give mental support, stability and reduced anxieties for her. Note that a germ-free environment may be hard to achieve in the delivery room and some families can be more distracted and agitated, which may lead to the mother’s weakened will for delivery.

Operative Delivery (Caesarean section or C-Section)

(1) C-section Delivery: The Caesarean section, or C-Section, is operated on mothers who have received it in her previous delivery or experience fetal distress and abnormal fetal presentation, such as the breech presentation, and placenta anomalies accompanied with the placenta praevia and abruption placenta. Some people believe the C-section also removes the process of labor pain and want to receive it even when vaginal delivery is possible. This is a false understanding of the C-section.
(2) Cases where the C-section is required: In most cases, vaginal delivery is the ideal method of delivery. However, some cases require the C-section for the health of the mother and her baby.

Comparison between natural delivery and C-section


Type	Natural Delivery	C-Section
Good	Successful delivery brings about better health conditions for both the baby and mother. Higher satisfaction level than C-section. Risks of anesthesia can be avoided. Less pain and shorter recovery period after delivery. As a mother gets to actively engage in the entire process, her love for a baby further deepens. Less delivery expenses.	It is safer than natural childbirth for both the mother and baby in risky situations such as the breech presentation or placenta praevia. You may deliver a baby on the day you'd like and there is no need for prolonged labor pain. Shorter time taken for delivery and no pain during operation.
Bad	Some cases, where the C-section was unplanned and is immediately required due to unsuccessful natural delivery, may pose more risks than the planned one.	Similar to ther normal operations, it has the risk of anesthesia after-effects, infection and bleeding. 2 to 4 more days of hospitalization is needed after delivery. The pain after the operation may hinder your movements and make recovery It takes even longer time to breast-feed a baby in a normal way. Costs more than natural childbirth.