Had a C-section and wondering if you have to do it again? You might be able to have a vaginal birth this time around – and yes, it can be safe.

Many women who delivered their first child through C-section assume that a vaginal birth after C-section—VBAC, for short—is impossible for their second child. In truth, the answer is a bit ...

After having a C-section, women may want a VBAC because they want to avoid major surgery, have a religious or personal preference or had a traumatic C-section experience in the past.

The report released Wednesday by the National Institutes of Health should help increase access to VBAC. And women in California are luckier than most because they can find out how various ...

She had her second VBAC in 2020 while she had COVID-19. “Even with COVID (it was better),” she said. Breanna Jay felt that the two VBACs she had after her first C-section were easier to go ...

VBAC may also help ward off the potential for future risks that come with multiple cesareans such as hysterectomy, bowel and bladder injury, transfusion, placenta previa and placenta accreta.

Many women think that once you have a cesarean section, you'll always have to have them with subsequent births. However, according to an expert panel of doctors from the National Institutes of ...

VBAC rates in the U.S. are still at that low 11 percent, and it's not because there aren't enough good candidates or because those candidates aren't asking for them.

My daughter and I did the impossible together. We responded to all of the people who doubted that I could have a VBAC by having one. After being bullied into a C-section with my firstborn, I was ...

The VBAC calculator is just one of several clinical algorithms that have recently been challenged over their use of race adjustment. Providers across specialties have questioned the inclusion of ...

The VBAC calculator does not distinguish between IOL and spontaneous labor, noted Daniel Lorido, MD, MPH, of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues.