Vaginal birth after caesarean ||This article may require cleanup
to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. (May 2011)| |Vaginal
birth after caesarean| Vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC)
refers to the practice of birthing a baby vaginally after a
previous baby has been delivered through caesarean section
(surgically). According to the American Pregnancy Association,
90% of women who have undergone caesarean deliveries are
candidates for VBAC. Approximately 60-80% of women opting for
VBAC will successfully give birth vaginally, which is comparable
to the overall vaginal delivery rate in the United States in
2010. VBAC trends in the United States  Although caesarean
sections made up only 5% of all deliveries in the early 1970s,
among women who did have primary caesarean sections, the
century-old opinion held, "Once a caesarean, always a
caesarean." A mother-driven movement supporting VBAC changed
standard medical practice, and rates of VBAC rose in the 1980s
and early 1990s. A major turning point occurred in 1996