Caesarean or vaginal delivery for preterm very-low-birth weight (< or =1,250 g) infant: experience from a district general hospital in UK.

Objective: To determine whether delivery by caesarean is associated with a better neuro-developmental outcome at two years for preterm infants born weighing 1,250 g or less.

Setting: District General Hospital, United Kingdom.

Design: All inborn infants weighing <1,250 g born at St Helier University Hospital between January 1995 and December 2003 were identified from contemporaneously collected computer database.