Clinical Features and Correlates of Outcomes for High-Risk, Marginalized Mothers and Newborn Infants Engaged with a Specialist Perinatal and Family Drug Health Service

Table 4

Characteristics of labour and delivery.

Characteristics	Result	National data
% Booked delivery	93.5	—
% Breech presentation	7.9	4.0*
Labour
% Spontaneous	61.9	56.6
% Induced	25.9	25.3
% No labour	12.2	18.1
% Caesarean section delivery	28.8	30.9
% Instrumental vaginal delivery	10.8	11.1
% Pain relief for labour	78.4	74.8
Median postnatal length of stay, days	7.0	3.0**

* 𝑝 value < 0.05; **𝑝 value < 0.001.