Previous Traumatic Birth: An Impetus for Requested Cesarean Birth

Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean Delivery

Between 1970 and 2007, the cesarean delivery rate in the United States increased dramatically from 5% to more than 31% (6, 7). This increase was a result of several changes in the practice environment, including the introduction of electronic fetal monitoring and the decrease in use of vaginal breech deliveries and forceps deliveries (8–10). The increase in cesarean delivery rates was partly pe...

Trends in cesarean birth and vaginal birth after previous cesarean, 1991-99.

OBJECTIVES This report presents trends in rates of cesarean delivery and rates of vaginal birth after previous cesarean (VBAC) delivery for 1991-99. Data for the United States showing trends by maternal age, race/ethnicity, and State are presented. Also trends in cesarean rates by selected maternal characteristics, medical risk factors, and complications of labor and/or delivery are shown. A br...

Birth After Previous Caesarean Birth

Birth after cesarean section

BACKGROUND The number of incoming expectant women who have previously experienced cesarean section has increased. This work sought to find the frequency and connections between vaginal deliveries, cesarean sections, and iterative cesarean sections from 2004 to 2008. MATERIAL/METHODS In all, 828 women with previous cesarean sections were included. From this group, 8282 vaginal deliveries were ...

Vaginal birth after cesarean: an effective method to reduce cesarean.

Cesarean deliveries represent almost one third of US births. Given that repeat cesarean is the most common single indication for cesarean, trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) with subsequent vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is an important mechanism to reduce the overall cesarean rate. The 2010 National Institutes of Health Conference found that one of the biggest barriers to VBAC is the l...