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CONNETICUT: 3-26-2010: Local hospitals ban VBAC
Danielle Elwood - Across Connecticut there is a growing trend of hospitals which are starting to ban a safe procedure also called VBAC or Vaginal Birth After Cesarean. Recently the National Institute of Health released a new statement after a three day long consensus encouraging hospitals and providers to provide VBAC services as a trail of labor and vaginal delivery after a previous cesarean is the safest option for women with a previous cesarean section. Some of the reasons across Connecticut that have been cites in hospitals no longer allowing this natural bodily function have been everything from providers unwillingness to attend a VBAC all the way to the hospital not being equipped for an emergency that may come from a VBAC delivery or trial of labor after a previous c-section. What is alarming about this is these same hospitals are attending births in first time mothers, which statistically are as dangerous as a woman having a trial of labor with a previous cesarean delivery. ...
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