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Table 6 Mode of delivery and peripartal parameters

From: Female genital mutilation/cutting incidence, diagnostic capacities, and obstetric outcomes among migrant women: a single-center retrospective analysis in a 10-year birth cohort in Austria

 

Numbers

Percent

Mode of delivery

 spontaneous vaginal

471

55.0%

 Assisted vaginal

42

4.9%

  Vacuum extraction

39

4.6%

  Forceps

2

0.2%

  Breech delivery

1

0.1%

 Cesarean section

343

40.1%

  primary

191

22.3%

  secondary

152 (77 fetal/75 maternal)

17.8%

Episiotomy

 Yes

63

12.3%

  At spontaneous delivery

33

6.4%

  At assisted vaginal delivery

30

5.8%

 No

450

87.7%

Complications

 Perineal tear 3rd/4th degree

6

1.2%

 Intrapartal hemorrhage

1

0.2%

 Birth injury explicitly due to FGM/C

6

1.2%

 Clitoral Tear

12

2.3%

  of which with FGM/C documentation

6

1.2%

  of which without FGM/C documentation

6

1.2%

 paraclitoral labial laceration

4

0.8%

  of which with FGM/C documentation

1

0.2%

  of which without FGM/C documentation

3

0.6%