During the period under review, 1,599 births were recorded in
the tertiary maternity database, of which 1,563 (97.7 %) were
live births, and 31 (1.9 %) births overall were twins. The
caesarean delivery rate, among 1,563 women with live births,
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was 38.7 %. A sample of 939 vaginal deliveries was drawn for
analysis; after excluding 4 cases because of the lack of information
on laceration, a final sample of 935 women who experienced
vaginal deliveries with live neonates were included
(Fig. 1). Among these