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Video: How is labor and delivery during a VBAC different from labor and delivery during a vaginal birth without previous C-section?
By Mayo Clinic staffTranscript
Roger Harms, M.D., Mayo Clinic specialist in obstetrics-gynecology
A vaginal delivery after a prior Caesarean section is largely different in the precautions that need to be taken rather than the actions that are being taken. The actual physiology of labor happens essentially exactly the same. The potential for rupture in the uterus is present when we're doing a vaginal delivery after a Caesarean — that only happens maybe one out of 100 times. But it is such an important complication that the medical team needs to be prepared to act. So the only difference would be some constraint on the size of the hospital (and) the resources available where vaginal deliveries should be undertaken. But the actual labor and delivery happens the way other people's labor and deliveries go, and when the baby is born the recovery is essentially the same as well.
