Ways of giving birth - "other"....??

[bookthief]

I'm looking at some birth statistics for my work. It lists the % for each hospital by method of delivery, those being:

Spontaneous
Forceps
Vacuum
Breech
Caesarian (elective)
Caesarian (emergency)
OTHER???

Our hospital has 0.1% for other. WTF?? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but is there another way to give birth?

(I don't need to know this btw, just curious and mind boggling)

Episiotomy maybe? Syntocinon and induction?

Induction

home birth?

Feet first, or is that counted as breach?

induced?

or just an error?

or a combination of things, i.e ventouse followed by em c.s?

teleportation, as suggested on anothr thread?

baby ripping out of the tummy alien style?

don't think it's a combination - my failed ventouse and successful forceps was recorded as forceps.

Stork? Gooseberry bush?

More seriously, I suspect rounding error (i.e. once other figures were rounded and added together they only came to 99.9% so they introduced "other" to compensate) or "Oh drat, we forgot to tick a box for one baby".

Crash section?

It can't be induced because even if your baby is induced it has to come out via one o fhte other methods.

Plus surely 0.1% woul dbe very very low rate for inductions.

I'm very interested in knowing what the 'other' is. Due to give birth in 2 weeks and if they've come up with a new, pain free way of doing it, I'd like to know about it.

Could be "unrecorded"

i.e. it is one of teh above but we don't know which one cos the MW forgot to write up the notes

still birth under general anaesthetic.

Out through the mouth?

Hand up the fanjo like James Herriot and the cow?

now we're talking!
I love the theme tune too

I have solved this

Someone has invented a child teleportation device.

Child in tummy. Press a button. Child lying in cot next to you and tummy magically flat again. No damage to fanjo or bikini line.

Or maybe it is a step beyond in vitro fertilisation...it is in vitro feotal development...the foetus is grown in a supersized petri dish in a lab incubator. No damage to fanjo, bikini line and even the pelvic floor stays intact.

Ok, am back. Not induction (there are separate - high - figures for that.) Not unrecorded as it says that these haven't been included and also not combination.

Maybe it's the experimental teleportation device. One hospital has 3% of births this way so maybe they're piloting it. Ooh I hope it catches on .

I suspect it must be a rounding thing (0.1% would be around 4 births for this hospital) but I'm going to go off and contact the stats people because I really want to know now.

Well, it turns out that it is as simple as unrecorded (even though these are not meant to be included).

Apparently the field should never be used as the only time the method of birth would be genuinely unknown is if it was an unattended birth, and obviously that would be spontaneous and recorded as such. The stats lady says that these entries are queried at several stages during the information collecting process but the hospital are not obliged to correct them.

So that was a very mundane answer. No new fancy technology (that they're telling us about anyway).