Maternal and infants characteristics in pregnancies where the child was born in breech or in cephalic position
Breech position | Cephalic position | |||
n 16 700 | (%) (100) | n 503 347 | (%) (100) | |
Maternal age* | ||||
≤19 years | 290 | (2) | 11 889 | (2) |
20–34 years | 13 412 | (80) | 409 401 | (81) |
≥35 years | 2 998 | (18) | 82 031 | (17) |
Parity | ||||
Nullipara | 9 280 | (56) | 199 822 | (40) |
Primipara | 4 599 | (27) | 184 068 | (36) |
>1 para | 2 822 | (17) | 119 457 | (24) |
Sex† | ||||
Male | 7 540 | (45) | 257 128 | (51) |
Female | 9 160 | (55) | 246 216 | (49) |
Small-for-gestational age‡ | 424 | (2.5) | 7 130 | (1.4) |
Apgar score at 5 min§ | ||||
0–3 | 93 | (0.6) | 1 477 | (0.3) |
4–6 | 427 | (2.4) | 7 913 | (1.7) |
7–10 | 16 139 | (97) | 492 858 | (98) |
*Information on maternal age were missing in 26 children in cephalic.
†Information on sex were missing in one child in cephalic.
‡Information on small-for-gestational age were missing in 12 children in breech and 361 in cephalic.
§Information on Apgar at 5 min were missing in 41 children in breech and 1099 in cephalic.