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In this episode, your host Annette Perel takes a deep dive into the world of VBAC'S (VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN SECTION) What is a section? What can you do to have a VBAC?

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Resources:

Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC), By Lois J. Estner and Nancy Wainer Cohen

Copyright © 2012 VBAC Facts. Permission granted to freely reproduce with attribution. http://vbacfacts.com/quick-facts

Quick Facts: Birth after Cesarean

After a cesarean, most women have two choices for future births: a vaginal birth after cesarean

(VBAC) or a repeat cesarean section (RCS).

There is a lot of misinformation about these two options. Let’s review some quick facts compiled by Jennifer Kamel, Founder of VBAC Facts.

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http://www.childbirthconnection.org/article.asp?ck=10068

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illegal? Retrieved from VBAC Facts:

http://vbacfacts.com/2009/02/28/is-vbac-illegal/

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Kamel, J. (2010b, March 16). Another VBAC consult misinforms.

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http://vbacfacts.com/2010/03/16/another-vbac-consultmisinforms/

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