Six Reasons to Be Optimistic about the NIH Consensus Development Conference on VBAC

by Judith Rooks, CNM, MPH, FACNMMany of you already know about the upcoming NIH Consensus Development Conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC): New Insights, March 8-10, at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Many midwifery advocates, including me, have had a bad taste in our mouths about NIH conferences on cesarean sections based on the 2006 NIH “State-of-the Science” conference on