VBAC
With first babies, you have all the choices in the world how to give birth — drug-free, with a doula, in a hospital surrounded by the family, c-section. Not that the plan always works out, but a mom-to-be can dream.
With subsequent babies, however, the options narrow quickly for a group of women who, for whatever reason, wound up giving birth to the first via cesarean section.
Pamela Paul's article in this week's Time, "The Trouble With Repeat Cesareans," would more accurately be titled "Hey, Good Luck With That VBAC."
Paul doesn't set out to argue whether women should be allowed to choose to give birth via c-section. Rather, she illustrates how, for an alarmingly large number of women, the choice to give birth vaginally isn't even there — c-section is the only apparent option.
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