Plus Size VBAC: Odds, Risks, and Realities

You will learn:

  • How BMI influences uterine rupture risk
  • The two factors that impact uterine rupture outcomes
  • How maternal & neonatal outcomes change as BMI increases
  • Operative vaginal delivery outcomes during a plus size VBAC
  • How provider preference negatively influences the birthing decisions of parents of size
  • Simple strategies to reduce size bias and stigma in your practice
  • How to fairly communicate the facts to plus size parents


Your Instructor


Jen Kamel
Jen Kamel

As an internationally recognized consumer advocate and Founder of VBAC Facts®, I help birth professionals, and cesarean parents, achieve clarity on vaginal birth after cesarean through my educational courses, training programs, and consulting services.

I speak at conferences around the world, present Grand Rounds at hospitals, advise advocates seeking legislative change in their state, and serve as a expert witness in legal proceedings.

After over a decade in this work, I have an encyclopedic and intimate appreciation of not only the VBAC evidence, but how politics, racism, paternalism, litigation, and convenience often supersede what birthing people want... all while they are subtlety coerced into repeat cesareans under the guise of safety.

I envision a time when every pregnant person seeking VBAC has access to unbiased information, respectful providers, and community support, so they can plan the birth of their choosing in the setting they desire.