Dataset of Appropriate cesarean rates using Robson’s Ten-Group Classification System in a Brazilian private practice

The dataset is retrospective and was collected from an Excel spreadsheet filled in by the researcher at the time of clinical procedures for monitoring pregnancies and deliveries, being manipulated and anonymized by her, with the confidentiality of the participants being preserved, in compliance with the General Personal Data Protection Law (Brazil) 13709/2018. The inclusion criteria were: women who sought prenatal care and childbirth with the intention of a spontaneous vaginal delivery with appropriate use of technology, with single or multiple pregnancies, who gave birth in a hospital to a newborn or a stillborn, with birth weight greater than or equal to 500 grams and/or gestational age greater than or equal to 22 weeks of gestation. Women with planned home birth were excluded. All women were followed by a multidisciplinary team led by an obstetrician since the antenatal period. During the visits, clinical and non-clinical aspects of childbirth care and perinatal education and promotion of vaginal birth as a positive experience were broached, respecting the woman’s autonomy. An obstetrician was present in all births (including low risk) and prioritized the active phase for childbirth admission. When a midwife was part of the team, there were alternate antenatal visits by her and the obstetrician, and she did the first evaluation of the birth process at the woman’s home, the obstetrician coming to the birth from dilation at 6cm on, or before if there were complications or the woman asked for analgesia. In labour, they had continuous support, the presence of a companion and/or a doula of their choice; completion of delivery registered in their medical record; use of non-pharmacological methods for pain relief; freedom of movement during labour; free food ingestion; freedom of choice of position for delivery and no use of a peripheral venous catheter, oxytocin or routine amniotomy. The study received ethical approval from the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo through national Plataforma Brasil under the Certificate of Presentation of Ethical Appreciation (CAAE) number 50733621.8.0000.5421 on September 16, 2021, based on the Helsinki declaration. The ethical committee has approved that the individual informed consent was not considered due to the confidential handling of the data presented without identifying the individuals.