Re: [ozmidwifery] VBACs

[Judy Chapman]

Hi Dierdre,

Mareeba Hospital maternity is not a birth centre but being a small rural hospital could be considered a 'low risk' centre. Our tertiary hospital is Cairns Base Hospital, an hour's drive away. We are required to refer all high risk women there but we do have facilities for emergency CS (most of the time).

We do VBAC here. Women are screened for the reason for previous CS and many are able to choose VBAC. I don't have the figures on me as I am at home but we do have a fairly good success rate.  No induction, no epidural, midwifery model of care.

Cheers

Judy

Dierdre Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi all,

 

I was hoping that I could get feed back from any of you about what low risk centres in Australia permit VBACs.  Someone told me that there is a birth centre in Sydney that does but I was after some confirmation.  If! any one works in a “Low risk” centre and VBAC is still an option there could you please let me know.

 

Thanks Dierdre B.

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