She said unless medics can better identify women who need assisted delivery, or improve training, they should be wary of encouraging mums-to-be to opt for forceps or vacuum over a C-section.

Here's what will happen during an assisted delivery with forceps or a vacuum in case your practitioner decides you need one.

Although cesarean section during labour may not prevent anal incontinence, elective cesarean section clearly does. 7 Elective cesarean delivery does not decrease pelvic muscle strength: maximum anal ...

Compared to Caesarean section deliveries, midpelvic deliveries with forceps and vacuum may cause greater trauma to mothers and babies.

Share or comment on this article: Consultant gynaecologist who 'went on warpath' towards terrified pregnant mother amid row over C-section and using forceps as she gave birth is suspended ...

There is renewed concern about the scale of injuries to women caused by forceps delivery in Australian hospitals, which one expert says is a direct result of efforts to lower caesarean sections.

Vijayawada, Aug 16 (IANS) In a shocking incident of medical negligence, doctors allegedly left forceps in a woman's stomach after her cesarean delive ...

KKH also explained that forceps were necessary in the situation and said the marks fully healed after a month.

Vijayawada: An artery forceps measuring two to three inches length was removed from the abdomen of a woman when it was forgotten by a team of doctors while performing delivery through C-section ...

VIJAYAWADA: Doctors allegedly left forceps in a woman’s stomach after her cesarean delivery at a government hospital at Eluru in Andhra Pradesh. Nearly three months after the doctors left the ...