A panel constituting of medical experts from various institutes on Wednesday recommended steps to reverse the old trend--“once a cesarean, always a cesarean”.
Eliminating the difficulty of finding doctors who can help women, who have had a cesarean section before, deliver normally was the main agenda of the panel.
The panel met at a conference held in Bethesda, Md., U.S. by the National Institutes of Health and discussed the reasons behind the constant decline in the rate of VBAC, vaginal deliveries after a cesarean section in the past.
The VBAC rate has dropped from 28.6 percent in 1996 to less than 10 percent in 2009, with the cesarean rate rising to a whopping 32 percent, claimed the experts.
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