ArticleBreastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine2013
The influence of mode of delivery on breastfeeding initiation in women with a prior cesarean delivery: a population-based study.
Article in Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Providers' perspective on vaginal birth after cesarean birth: a qualitative systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice in the first six months of life and its determinants in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2019Pooled it
- Maternal Sense of Control During Childbirth and Infant Feeding Method.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2020Trial
- Review
- Caesarean deliveries and double burden of malnutrition: a multicountry analysis in South and Southeast Asia.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Determinants of early initiation of breastfeeding in Côte d'Ivoire: a hospital-based study.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Impact of Delivery Method on Initiation and Continuation of Breastfeeding: A Prospective Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Article
- Does caesarean section have an impact on exclusive breastfeeding? Evidence from four Southeast Asian countries.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Quantifying the Association between Pump Use and Breastfeeding Duration.The Journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Geospatial determinants and spatio-temporal variation of early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding in Ethiopia from 2011 to 2019, a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Association Between Pandemic-Related Maternal Perinatal Anxiety and Early Postpartum Breastfeeding Success.Cureus · 2024Article
- Perinatal care in SARS-CoV-2 infected women: the lesson learnt from a national prospective cohort study during the pandemic in Italy.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Variations in the prevalence of caesarean section deliveries in India between 2016 and 2021 - an analysis of Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Factors associated with successful vaginal birth after one lower uterine transverse cesarean section delivery.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The extended gentle caesarean section protocol-expanding the scope and adding value for the family: a cross-sectional study.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2023Article
- Long-term effects of caesarean delivery on health and behavioural outcomes of the mother and child in Bangladesh.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Article
- Analysis of the Influence of Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Weight Gain during Pregnancy on the Weight of Healthy Children during the First 2 Years of Life: A Prospective Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Factors affecting the mother's choice of infant feeding method in Poland: a cross-sectional preliminary study in Poland.Irish journal of medical science · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveThis study compared breastfeeding initiation following repeat cesarean delivery, successful vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), and unsuccessful trial of labor. SUBJECTS AND
methodsWe performed a population-based retrospective cohort study of Ohio births (2006-2007) with a previous cesarean delivery. The primary outcomes were breastfeeding initiation rates among women with a previous cesarean delivery. Breastfeeding initiation rates were compared among three different delivery types: repeat cesarean delivery, successful VBAC, and unsuccessful trial of labor. Sociodemographic factors, medical risk factors, and pregnancy-related risk factors were also compared to assess influence on breastfeeding initiation rates.
resultsWomen delivered by successful VBAC were 47% more likely to initiate breastfeeding than women delivered by scheduled repeat cesarean (adjusted relative risk 1.47; 95% confidence interval 1.35, 1.60). Women who ultimately delivered by cesarean section with unsuccessful trial of labor were also more likely to breastfeed than women with a scheduled repeat cesarean section (61% vs. 58.7%, respectively) (adjusted relative risk 1.17; 95% confidence interval 1.04, 1.33).
conclusionsPatients who undergo a scheduled repeat cesarean delivery are less likely to initiate breastfeeding. Women who attempt and succeed in achieving vaginal birth after a previous cesarean section are more likely to breastfeed than are women who deliver by repeat cesarean section. Also, those women who ultimately deliver by cesarean section after an unsuccessful trial of labor were also more likely to breastfeed than those women with a scheduled repeat cesarean section. This suggests there are influences on patient choice for delivery that also may influence the patient's decision to breastfeed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.