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Vaginal birth after C-section (VBAC)

 

VBAC- Vaginal Birth After C-Section
It used to be an adage many, many years ago, “once a C-section, always a C-section.  But that’s not true anymore.  Today for low risk women, health care providers can determine that some of them are eligible for VBAC, so that after a C-section they can have a vaginal birth.  No problem.  One should be careful though, and health care providers usually are careful to look for any preliminary signs if they exist for what can happen in a VBAC if things do go wrong – specifically a uterine rupture.  That is, many times if a VBAC doesn’t go well, the uterus will start to separate at the scar tissue of the previous C-section.  This separation can sometimes be felt by women and they will complain of a tearing or burning or stabbing type of pain.  Sometimes they complain of this pain during labor and delivery and unfortunately are ignored and they are told, “that’s just the normal signs of labor and delivery.”

However many times when these symptoms are paid attention to, and the moms are taken immediately to the operating room, a delivery can occur of their baby before a full blown uterine rupture occurs, before the baby floats out of the uterus in the abdominal cavity and severe results can occur specifically lack of oxygen or lack of blood flow to the baby’s brain.  A VBAC is also, under current standards of the American College of Obstetricians, not recommended for patients who have had two prior C-sections.  Specifically moms who have had two prior C-sections and no prior vaginal delivery are not allowed to get a VBAC.  In those circumstances, an elective C-section is performed long before the mom ever go into or have contractions that may lead to a uterine rupture.  The goal is obviously for a healthy baby and to avoid a uterine rupture.  When the standard care is met, these goals can be achieved.

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Cerebral Palsy video chapter 2 - Causes of Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 3 - Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 4 - Timing a Brain Injury

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 5 - Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 6 - Nucleated Red Blood Cells

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 7 - Radiograph

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 8 - Placenta Pathlogy

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 9 - Microcephaly

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 10 - Vaginal birth after C-section (VBAC)

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 11 - Placental Abruption