{"id":4811,"date":"2020-03-05T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:30:19","slug":"recent-trends-in-vaginal-birth-after-cesarean-delivery-united-states-2016-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/03\/05\/4811\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Trends in Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery: United States, 2016\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Michelle Osterman, M.H.S., Health Statistician and Lead Author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db359-h.pdf\">Recent Trends in Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery: United States, 2016\u20132018<\/a>,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: Why did you decide to do a report on rates of vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC)?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MO<\/em><\/strong>: Women who deliver vaginally after a previous cesarean delivery are less likely to experience birth-related morbidities and in recent years there has been an effort in the medical community to make VBAC more available; however, national data on VBAC and VBAC trends just recently become available again This report examines the 3 years of available national data to explore recent VBAC trends.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: Was there a specific finding in the data that surprised you?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MO<\/em><\/strong>: How widespread the increase was by age, race, state of residence, and for term gestational ages was surprising.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: How did you obtain this data for this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MO<\/em><\/strong>: This information is from all birth certificates reported in the Unites States via the National Vital Statistics System for 2016-2018.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: What is the take home message for this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MO<\/em><\/strong>: There appears to be widespread increases in VBAC from 2016 through 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Michelle Osterman, M.H.S., Health Statistician and Lead Author of \u201cRecent Trends in Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery: United States, 2016\u20132018,\u201d Q: Why did you decide to do a report on rates of vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC)? MO: Women who deliver vaginally after a previous cesarean delivery are less likely to experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,53749,47317,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}