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VBAC

noun

VBAC is a noun meaning “A vaginal birth undertaken with precautionary measures subsequent to a cesarean section birth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-B-A-C, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of VBAC is VBACs.

What does VBAC mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A vaginal birth undertaken with precautionary measures subsequent to a cesarean section birth.

    I was worried about having a VBAC because my mother nearly bled to death when she gave live birth to me after having had a cesarean.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of VBAC

  • VBACs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is VBAC?

VBAC appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does VBAC come from?

Initialism of vaginal birth after cesarean.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).