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- noun medicine A vaginal birth undertaken with precautionary measures subsequent to a
cesarean section birth.
Etymologies
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(If you don't understand what I am talking about, look up VBAC policies and restrictions - even though the risk of VBAC is comparable to the risk of repeat surgery, the choice is often removed from the hands of the mother) amocksun
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(If you don't understand what I am talking about, look up VBAC policies and restrictions - even though the risk of VBAC is comparable to the risk of repeat surgery, the choice is often removed from the hands of the mother) amocksun
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About 15 years ago, nearly 30 percent of women who'd had one C-section were delivering their next babies vaginally, a trend called VBAC, which is short for "vaginal birth after cesarean."
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Last spring, a National Institutes of Health panel strongly urged steps to reverse that trend, saying a third of hospitals and half of doctors ban women from attempting what's called VBAC, for "vaginal birth after cesarean."
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It is called a VBAC-vaginal birth AFTER cesarean!!!
Angelina Jolie Uncensored!: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008
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Plans that pay attention to this so-called VBAC rate are more likely to go to extra lengths to reduce risk in childbirth.
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As a woman with a previous cesarean myself, I feel strongly that all women should be given information on the risks and benefits of vaginal birth after cesarean referred to as VBAC and allowed to make their own decisions.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008
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As a woman with a previous cesarean myself, I feel strongly that all women should be given information on the risks and benefits of vaginal birth after cesarean referred to as VBAC and allowed to make their own decisions.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008
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The most serious, and rarest, complication that can occur during a VBAC is a symptomatic separation of a previous uterine scar a rupture.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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Both ACOG and the American College of Nurse Midwives agree that women who want to try to have a vaginal delivery after having had a first baby by Caesarean section known as a VBAC should be in the hospital.
NYT > Home Page By RONI CARYN RABIN 2011
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