New Guidelines for VBAC

[lillymonster]

This may be moved, but it's already in VBAC. My local ICAN leader sent me this article

http://www.salon.com/wires/allwires/...ons/index.html

So at least there are new guidelines that support VBAC. Hopefully hospitals will repel the no-vbac rules they have.

Repeal - not repel - sorry for the typo

[HeatherB]

[jensb]

I just read that in this morning's newspaper. I hope a lot of hospitals change their policies. Interesting how they stated that hospitals who do not offer a trial of labor should not be allowed to force women into a csec or deny care to someone in labor who declines a csec. If they put that into effect, hosps will be "forced" to allow trials of labor, essentially.

I'm not going to hold my breath, though.

[Banana731]

wow. i am a little shocked! But that would be great.

[MaerynPearl]

Wow! Thank you for that! I sent it along to my SIL who mentioned wanting to VBAC but knew its been hard to find places that are willing to.

[darkblue0729]

Let's hope that this means times are a changin'!

[Honey693]

I just posted this on facebook!

[MaryLang]

This is AWESOME!!! But makes me kinda bitter about my own birthing experiences. I hate how the medical establishment is so slow at stuff like this, the statistics have been there for years that VBAC's are better for baby and mother (In the vast majority of cases). My local news just had a story about how 80% of VBAC's and VBA2C's are successful, hope the word spreads and these crazy c/s statistics fall dramatically.