Women who have had a caesarean section often want to deliver their next child vaginally--and many are physically capable of doing so. But across the nation, they’re increasingly denied that option.

The new guidelines directly affect more than half a million women annually. According to data from the CDC National Center For Health Statistics, approximately 605,000 women with a history of at least ...

With the birth of my third baby looming in the not-too-distant future, I've been crossing my fingers, toes, and anything else I can find that I'll be able to avoid a second C-section. My first was ...

If you’ve had a previous cesarean delivery, chances are you’re hoping to have a vaginal delivery the next time around. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) say that vaginal ...

From a prospective US multicenter cohort of 45,988 patients with a singleton gestation and a prior cesarean, 13,532 women that elected to attempt a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) were selected ...

For the woman with a prior uterine scar, neither repeat elective cesarean birth nor vaginal birth after cesarean birth (VBAC) trial of labor (TOL) is risk-free. When VBAC-TOL is successful, it is ...

In my first pregnancy 21/2 years ago, I was induced at 39 weeks, labored for 29 hours, and ended up with an emergency C-section when I failed to make any progress toward actually giving birth. Since ...

Baby deliveries via a VBAC—a vaginal birth after cesarean—have come into the spotlight in recent years, with several celebrities having opted for it. The most recent example is Tammy Hembrow, a ...

A vaginal birth after caesarean (known as a VBAC) is when a woman who has had a caesarean has a vaginal birth down the track. When a woman chooses a VBAC she is cared for much like she would during a ...

Lindsey Cunningham couldn’t bear the idea of recovering from another cesarean section. She knew it would be difficult to care for her new baby and four other children while her husband, a high school ...

“My body, my choice!” chants echoed outside Cottage Hospital on Saturday afternoon, when mothers, babies, husbands, and midwives gathered to protest the hospital’s VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) ...