Across Connecticut there is a growing trend of hospitals which are starting to ban a safe procedure also called VBAC or Vaginal Birth After Cesarean. Recently the National Institute of Health released a new statement after a three day long consensus encouraging hospitals and providers to provide VBAC services as a trail of labor and vaginal delivery after a previous cesarean is the safest option for women with a previous cesarean section.
Some of the reasons across Connecticut that have been cites in hospitals no longer allowing this natural bodily function have been everything from providers unwillingness to attend a VBAC all the way to the hospital not being equipped for an emergency that may come from a VBAC delivery or trial of labor after a previous c-section. What is alarming about this is these same hospitals are attending births in first time mothers, which statistically are as dangerous as a woman having a trial of labor with a previous cesarean delivery.
If hospitals are not equipped for an emergency situation, they should not be taking on birth in general, or even running an emergency department and experts agree.
What hospitals in Connecticut currently do not take on VBAC patients?
- Johnson Memorial Hospital
- St. Vincents Medical Center
- New Milford Hospital
- Sharon Hospital
While a VBAC Ban is hard for a hospital to enforce without court ordered cesarean sections, it has happened in the past. I encourage mothers to write and contact the hospitals above and encourage them to practice evidence based medicine for the safety of local mothers and babies.
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