Many women, especially first-timers, wonder if the type of birth their mothers and grandmothers have had will influence their own birth. We will try to answer a question that you have probably asked yourself: Is the way of giving birth inherited?
If your mother has had an easy birth, is the daughter also destined to give birth that way? And if she has had a difficult birth, is the daughter also destined to have it? If Grandma has given birth quickly, will future generations inherit that characteristic? And the caesarean section? Are the daughters of women who have had a C-section more prone to this type of birth?
They are doubts that have probably crossed your mind at some point, but that attempt to find a clue that helps them predict how their birth will seem to have no kind of scientific foundation.
Most of the factors that influence how a woman's delivery will be are not related to genetic inheritance, but to other types of conditions such as the environment, position and size of the baby, the lifestyle and physiology of each person, including psychological preparation.
It is often believed that the way of giving birth to women in the family may influence the birth itself, but the only condition that can be associated with inheritance is related to the mother's complexion, especially with the characteristics of the pelvis. However, having a narrow pelvis is not necessarily synonymous with difficult or slower delivery.
The evolution of a birth depends on other factors independent of inheritance, such as the size of the baby and the position in which it is located in the birth canal. That the fetus is in a more or less suitable position, as well as its size are circumstances that can slow down or the process of childbirth or make an easy birth become a more complicated one.
Although it has been believed that boys and girls born of buttocks had more than twice the risk of their children being born in the same way, it cannot be said that the position of the fetus in the womb is inherited from mothers to daughters.
If both happen to have the same fetal position, the birth process can take place differently in both cases. Nor is the size of the fetus influenced solely by genetics, but there are many factors that determine the size of the baby, from paternal genetics to feeding and the mother's life habits.
The age and physical condition of the mother, as well as the interventions that occur, the birth environment and the hormonal physiology of the woman, among many other things, influence the way of giving birth. Even a woman who has had more than one child may have had very different births.
Therefore, the pools based on the births of your mother or grandmother to try to predict how your own birth will have no reliability.
In your case, has there been any similarity between the births of women in the family and yours?
