The National Institutes of Health got a bunch of medical bigwigs together last week to talk about cesarean delivery and what they called the "troubling fact" that women who want to try for a vaginal birth after a C-section (VBAC) are often denied that option.

The panel supports the idea of allowing a woman to pursue a VBAC, and the research seems to bear out the fact that, for many, a vaginal birth after a surgical one is a viable option: According to the NIH press release about the panel, labor is successful in nearly 75 percent of VBAC cases.

"About 70 percent of women who have had Cesareans are good candidates for trying for a normal birth, and 60 percent to 80 percent of those who try succeed," Dr. F. Gary Cunningham, the conference chairman and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, tells The Money Times.

What's troubling to me is not the fact that Cunningham wants more women to have access to VBACs. No, what's troubling to me is how he called the way I birthed my children abnormal. I had two C-sections -- the first one because my daughter was breech, and the second an elective repeat C-section. The assertion that my birth experiences were less than normal is totally insulting.