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Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC) – RANZCOG
Furthermore, here are the results of a clinical trial about VBAC conducted by a world famous clinical trails group in fourteen Australian maternity hospitals – so, a very high quality study with information in a “local” population of women – published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Medicine peer-reviewed open access journal – “Planned Vaginal Birth or Elective Repeat Caesarean: Patient Preference Restricted Cohort with Nested Randomised Trial”:
PLOS Medicine Editors’ Summary of Results
If you do wish to attempt a VBAC within Darwin Private Hospital, the Hospital requires a specific Consent Form to be signed.
Note that there is a space for “Partner’s Signature” on this DPH Consent Form. We do not believe that this is appropriate – whilst we encourage you to fully discuss your pregnancy care with your partner, in the normal course of events it is up to the woman herself to give consent to a procedure or not – it is NOT up to her partner.