The VBAC Blog

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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?

Click HERE to read more.

“More women want to be able to have a baby naturally, even if they’ve had Caesareans. Research backs them up—so why won’t doctors?”

Click HERE to read the story in Newsweek.

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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?

Click HERE to read more.

“Unwilling to accept a permanent ban on vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in Florida’s birth centers, a coalition challenging the rule argues that Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration is overstepping its bounds by intervening in the activities of licensed healthcare providers and by overriding the “informed consent” standard for patients…”

Click HERE to read the entire story by Anna Clark at RH Reality Check.

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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?

Click HERE to read more.

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VBAC rate among Brockton hospitals plummets to nearly nothing
“…one of those hospitals does so few VBACs, or vaginal births after Cesarean, the state does not even calculate an annual rate for the procedure.”

Natural births decline after previous C-sections
Tampa mom hires midwife after having trouble finding provider that would allow VBAC.

Hospital gave Pitocin to VBAC mom despite risks; uterus ruptured. $31M Malpractice Verdict.
The nurses continued to give her Pitocin, even as her contractions escalated to unsafe levels, and “they blew the uterus apart,” Lawrence said.

C-Section Push
“…risks of surgery outweigh the risks of vaginal delivery.”

Woman Shows Gratitude for Exceptional Birth Experience
“With a cesarean section rate approaching 32% nationwide (CDC), an effort is being made to discover why fewer infants of healthy mothers die in vaginal birth than in cesarean section (CDC).”

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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?

Click HERE to read more.

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Neonatal Outcomes May Be Better With Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery
“Neonates born after elective subsequent cesarean delivery have significantly higher rates of respiratory morbidity and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission and longer length of hospital stay vs those with vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), according to the results of a retrospective cohort study reported in the June issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.”

Natural birth after c-section possible at Natividad Medical Center again
Natividad Medical Center announced Wednesday that so-called VBACs vaginal birth after cesarean are back. “This is something that I’ve heard women wanting for as long as I’ve lived here,” said Judy Rasmussen, the hospital’s director of prenatal services.

Repeat C-section babies more at risk than VBAC babies!
“Babies delivered by elective, repeat cesarean section delivery are nearly twice as likely to be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) than those born vaginally after the mother has previously had a c-section…”

My Super Vagina!
“So, I did it! I had a VBAC, or a vaginal birth after cesarean.”

Let women choose birthing alternative
OUTRAGE! Lehigh Valley Hospital terminates the delivery privileges of Laurice Dunning and Valley Midwives