April 2010 VBAC News
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Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines
“A panel of medical experts on Wednesday recommended steps to reverse a trend that has dismayed many pregnant women: the increasing difficulty of finding doctors and hospitals that will let a woman try to give birth normally if she has had a Caesarean section in the past…”
Home births on rise
“…But others defend midwifery as a safe option for women and say Oklahoma’s growth in midwifery births is not unique.”
Weighing the risk and rewards of vaginal birth after a C-section
“She knew the statistics about vaginal birth after a C-section, that only about 60% to 80% who try for a VBAC actually have one. But she also knew that when the time came, she’d just have to decide for herself…”
Groups seek balance with births
“For many years, the thinking in the medical field held that “once a C-section, always a C-section. But then surgeons developed a new incision, the so-called bikini-line, for cesarean sections that opened the door for women who had delivered by cesarean to try to deliver vaginally in subsequent pregnancies, a so-called VBAC or vaginal birth after cesarean…”
Options shouldn’t be limited by a C-section
“After she had to undergo an emergency cesarean delivery with her first son nearly two years ago, Erin Sarauer remembers a difficult recovery featuring a long hospital stay and limitations on how much weight she could lift…”
Why vaginal birth after C-section is getting more attention
“I honestly thought I’d never be able to do it,” Winslet said in 2004 magazine interview about the birth of her son in New York. “It was an incredible birth. It laid all the ghosts to rest. It was really triumphant.”
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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?
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