By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter by Serena Gordon
healthday Reporter – Wed Jul 21, 11:48 pm ET
WEDNESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) — Many women who’ve had a Cesarean section may be candidates for vaginal birth in future pregnancies, say new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
“These guidelines emphasize again that a trial of labor after Cesarean is an important option for most women,” said one of the authors of the new guidelines, Dr. Jeffrey Ecker, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Currently, almost one in three mothers delivers by Cesarean in the United States, according to the study.
More recent studies have supported the idea that many women can successfully deliver vaginally after having had a Cesarean, explained Dr. William Grobman, another author of the new guidelines and an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
In March, a National Institutes of Health panel came to the same conclusion and said that a Cesarean delivery in the past doesn’t mean a woman must automatically have one in subsequent pregnancies