Impact of First Childbirth on Changes in Women’s Preference for Mode of Delivery: Follow‐up of a Longitudinal Observational Study

A significant proportion of women changed their preferred mode of delivery after their first childbirth. Apart from reducing the number of cesarean sections in nulliparous women, prompt provision of education to women who had complications and investigations into fear factors during vaginal birth might help in reducing women's wish to change to elective cesarean section.