Podalic Presentation

The podalic presentations are more commonly called “ presentations of the seat ”. At the time of the Childbirth, the Enfant presents to the entry maternal basin the lower part of its body: the Buttock S.

According to whether the lower extremities of the child are raised or folded up, one speaks about décomplété or complete seat. Its frequency is about 2 to 3%, higher in the early deliveries.

The childbirth of the seat by the natural ways is possible, at the price of a certain number of precautions of which it is wise to be surrounded: woman having already been confined normally, broad maternal basin, too large child neither, nor too small, Pregnancy of normal evolution, maternal co-operation, anesthesia péridurale. The obstetrician must sometimes make use of operations obstétricales at the end of the childbirth to facilitate the birth.

Although this childbirth has bad reputation, no serious study forever shown of real big risk for the child if it is correctly carried out by an experienced obstetrician. He does not remain about it less than the current trend is to propose a Césarienne with the least suspicion of difficulty.

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