Stats and info on Vaginal twin births please.

Hi guys, I need some info on twin vaginal birth - how achievable it is, better outcomes as opposed to csections, stats etc etc. TIA :)

Why? :think:

Something to tell us PZ?? :p

Just kidding... but couldn't resist a bit of a razz...

Sorry to hijack...

Bahaha!!!! **** no! It's for a chick whose videos I follow on YouTube actually, she's UTD with twins and 19, and in America, so there's a lot of misinformation being thrown her way unfortunately. She wants a vaginal birth :)

I have no idea on stats but I vaginally birthed my twins. It was amazing. I must say though when we were transfered to the city after birth, all the doctors and nurses at that hospital were amazed.. Our local hospital is very pro-vb, no matter if it's vbac, twins, breech, whatever.

My ob mainly said that as long as both girls were head down then there was no reason for me not to be able to vb. I had an epidural which was mainly because I had previously had a c-section, so they wanted it in incase I ended up having a caesar. I think he also knew that if I was in too much pain, I'd be more likely to ask for a caesar lol.
Um, both girls although little had apgar scores of 9 when born, both very alert - opposed to DS who only scored a 4 and took a while to start breathing.

On my behalf, the vb was the best outcome for us because the girls ended up being transfered and it was possible for me to drive down and be with them, and do lots of running around and driving because I was staying half hour away, and home was an hour away. My recovery was great.



Of my 'twin mummy friends' - 3 have birthed vaginally, and 2 have been c-section.

Just had a thought too - Traveller has her twin birth story in her sig - it's fantastic. Maybe she wouldn't mind you passing it on?

Yeah I was gonna say "Trav's your girl"!

19 and UTD with twins? That's full on. Hope she's got some good support.

Good on you for supporting her! :D

She has a 14 month old daughter too. She's got a good head on her shoulders, she BF til 12 months etc, I just can't help it, when I see a young mum asking for help I've gotta get involved ;) Ofcorse, forgot about Trav!! Heck, maybe I should just link her to BB :p

My mum had a twin vaginal birth at 39 ;)
But that doesn't help much :lol:

My g/f had a twin vaginal birth on June 6th this year - babies were born early tho at 32 weeks gestation. If she had gone to full term she would have been booked in for a caesar tho.

I was going to suggest you take a look at my sig but I have been beaten to it :lol:

I tried really hard to find stats on normal twin births when I was pregnant, but all I could find was vaginal vs CS for my particular hospital (which was about 60% vaginal). However that did not take into account inductions, epidurals, etc. The stats are also difficult because many women will go into premature labour with twins, and there are greater complications with identical twins who share a placenta than fraternal twins who do not. What I did find out was that for women who have uncomplicated twin pregnancies which continue to term and are not interfered with by induction or augmentation of the 2nd twin, the CS rate was nice and low. Sorry I can't give you the figures.

Yeah if they are identical and there is any potential risk from TTTS they will suggest a C/S.
A lot of hospitals make twin birthing mummas have an epidural *just in case* the second twin doesn't descend or if they end up breech in labour
so that emergency C/S is a quick process. Mum wasn't 'allowed' to have them vaginally in Geelong, they were going to C/S her so she went to RWH.
The girls were born at 33 weeks gestation, not more than 15 minutes apart... labour was 4 hours (and they were trying to actively stop and slow it)
probably would have been quicker without the epidural!

DC - mine were identical and had started to show signs of TTTS but my waters broke at 35weeks 2 days, so I guess they were determined to arrive. We had recieved a call on the Friday night to say that the TTTS was starting to look serious and to come in on Sunday morning for monitoring. My waters broke 5am Sunday morning :). I do wonder what actually might of happened if I had made it to the monitoring appointment.
Lots of people have told me that other hospitals have a automatic rule of a c/s for twins.

They're fraternal :) Trav, if I take out names and locations, would you be okay with me passing on your story? It's awesome!! Cool if you're not, though.

you can pass on my story including names and locations if you like. It has been published elsewhere so is public knowledge now.