My birthing statistics are listed below.

The statistics listed below are for the births I have attended at home, in birth centres and in hospitals.  They reflect the care that has been provided to women in my care and may or may not represent your individual experience. This page is updated regularly.

The number and type of interventions in a birth will depend on many factors:

• Health and safety issues
• The decisions that are made by a woman and her care provider
• A woman's motivation to achieve the birth she has planned

Statistics:

• Normal birth (no forceps, vacuum or caesarean): 87%
• Caesarean 5%
• Vacuum 3%
• Forceps 5%
• VBAC 85%
• Episiotomy 3%
• Intact perineum 63%
• 6% women use an epidural for labour
• 78% women use no medical forms of pain relief in labour
• 11% women are induced

Statistics for first babies:

• Normal birth (no forceps, vacuum or caesarean): 90%
• Caesarean 3%
• Vacuum 4%
• Forceps 3%