ArticleBirth (Berkeley, Calif.)2019
Women's preference for vaginal birth after a first delivery by cesarean.
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- Preferred mode of delivery and its associated factors in pregnant women with a previous cesarean scar at a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia: institutional-based cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
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- Care Bundles: Enhanced Recovery After Delivery.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2023Article
- Vaginal birth after cesarean section: A quantitative study exploring women's understanding and experience regarding VBAC rates in Greece.European journal of midwifery · 2023Article
- Factors associated with labor after cesarean in a prospective cohort.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2022Article
- African American Women's Experiences with Birth After a Prior Cesarean Section.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Article
- An Uninformed Decision-Making Process for Cesarean Section: A Qualitative Exploratory Study among the Slum Residents of Dhaka City, Bangladesh.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- How can obstetrical anaesthesiologists help in reducing the rate of caesarean delivery?Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2022Article
- Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Section (VBAC) Model using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarch Process.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2021Article
- Vaginal birth after Cesarean experience in Romania: A retrospective case-series study and online survey.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Article
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backgroundNearly 90% of United States pregnant women with a prior cesarean give birth by repeat cesarean. Public health goals encourage greater use of vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), but there is little prospective data on predictors of women's preference for VBAC. We characterized predictors of women's preferred mode of delivery after a first cesarean and thematically categorized reasons for their preference.
methodsData were from a cohort of 3006 women whose first childbirth was in Pennsylvania in 2009-2011. The analytic sample included women who had their first birth by cesarean and reported mode of delivery preference for their next delivery at 12 months postpartum (n = 616). Associations with future birth mode preference were assessed using multivariate logistic regression, and reasons for preference were categorized using content analysis.
resultsAt 12 months postpartum, 45% of women who delivered by cesarean in their first birth wanted to have their next delivery vaginally. Independent predictors of VBAC preference were Black race/ethnicity, nonrecurrent indication for the first cesarean, planning three or more additional children, and difficulty recovering from the first cesarean. The most common reason for preferring a vaginal birth was wanting the experience of vaginal birth; the most common reason for preferring cesarean birth was that the first birth was by cesarean.
conclusionNearly half of respondents preferred VBAC in future births, but national estimates indicate that only about 12% of women with prior cesareans have a VBAC. This suggests a need to ensure greater access to VBAC for women who want it.
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