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Posted: July 21 2010 at 7:23pm | IP Logged Quote insegnante
Just wanted to mention this because it could have a significant positive impact on the lives of mothers here and others you know. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has just released new, less restrictive VBAC guidelines.

      "The College guidelines now clearly say that women with two previous low-transverse cesarean incisions, women carrying twins, and women with an unknown type of uterine scar are considered appropriate candidates for a TOLAC," said Jeffrey L. Ecker, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and immediate past vice chair of the Committee on Practice Bulletins-Obstetrics who co-wrote the document with William A. Grobman, MD, from Northwestern University in Chicago. -- http://www.acog.org/from_home/publications/press_releases/nr 07-21-10-1.cfm

I hope this helps someone. I managed to "sneak through" with a VBA2C in spite of no prior VB in 2008 under the supportive care of a well-qualified obstetrician in a well-equipped hospital, because I really believed that the evidence did not support an automatic c-section after 2 c-sections. Somehow this revision makes me even gladder that I did, because it would be very upsetting that I had had a third c-section with all its immediate and long-term effects solely because of a policy that was reversed 6 years after its institution.


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Posted: July 21 2010 at 9:02pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
oh thank you for posting this Theresa.. I have a friend that will really appreciate this information about now.



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Posted: July 22 2010 at 6:48am | IP Logged Quote Angel
I wish they had come out with these guidelines in 2007.... sigh...

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