Report: Having a Caesarean section slightly increases risk of stillbirth in next pregnancy

Researchers from UCC, in collaboration with Aarhus University in Denmark, have found that the risk of a stillbirth increases by 14% in the next pregnancy after a Caesarean section.

The researchers obtained data for over 800,000 women from Danish national registers in relation to their first live birth and checked if they had a Caesarean section.

They then monitored the women until they had a stillbirth, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or a second live birth.