Clearbirth EP 30: VBAC: What You Need to Know
Join your host Annette Perel, a doula for over 17 years, for The Clearbirth Podcast!
In this episode, your host Annette Perel takes a deep dive into the world of VBAC'S (VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN SECTION) What is a section? What can you do to have a VBAC?
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Resources:
Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC), By Lois J. Estner and Nancy Wainer Cohen
Copyright © 2012 VBAC Facts. Permission granted to freely reproduce with attribution. http://vbacfacts.com/quick-facts
Quick Facts: Birth after Cesarean
After a cesarean, most women have two choices for future births: a vaginal birth after cesarean
(VBAC) or a repeat cesarean section (RCS).
There is a lot of misinformation about these two options. Let’s review some quick facts compiled by Jennifer Kamel, Founder of VBAC Facts.
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21, 2010, from ACOG:
http://www.acog.org/from_home/publications/press_releases/nr
07-21-10-1.cfm
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (2010).
ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 115: Vaginal Birth After Previous
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http://www.childbirthconnection.org/article.asp?ck=10068
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thickness via sonogram. Retrieved from VBAC Facts:
http://vbacfacts.com/2009/01/17/predicting-uterine-rupture-viasonogram-to-measure-uterine-thickness/
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informed consent aka why I started this website. Retrieved from
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illegal? Retrieved from VBAC Facts:
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VBAC Facts: http://vbacfacts.com/2010/07/22/vbac-in-ruralhospitals/
Kamel, J. (2010b, March 16). Another VBAC consult misinforms.
Retrieved from VBAC Facts:
http://vbacfacts.com/2010/03/16/another-vbac-consultmisinforms/
Kamel, J. (2010c, March 9). American women speak about VBAC.
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http://vbacfacts.com/2010/03/09/american-women-speak-aboutvbac/
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http://consensus.nih.gov/2010/vbacstatement.htm
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