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My unsuccessful vbac
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I used this group for motivation for my vbac, the purpose of this post is to share my experience with you all, not discourage you.
I woke up on Monday at 3:00am with contractions every 5-10mins. I had very frequent bowel movements and felt most comfortable on the toilet. I stuck it out all day and waited for my weekly ob visit that afternoon. Sadly I was only 1cm, 90% effaced, -1 station so it was called early labor. I went home and labored that whole night, the pain was bad enough that I still had not slept. At 12:30 I woke dh up and told him it's time to go if we get sent home, we get sent home. I was cursing through contractions every 5-7 mins and starting to shake. On our 45 min commute they picked up to every 3 mins. The ob checked me and I was 3-4cm so it was go time. I got an epi and was checked about 6hrs later, 8cm. I was so excited, I was getting my vbac. A couple of hours later still 8. A couple hours after that 9cm, 100%, 0. 6hrs later the exact same. They upped my pitocin at this point and I started to have back labor. 2hrs later and my cervix started to swell so they called it an 8. At that point they said that I had to have a section for failure to progress bc they couldn't use a stronger dose of pitocin bc I was vbac. 40 hours into labor, 40 hours of no sleep, 1cm from getting my vbac and I was wheeled to the or. 15mins later I heard sweet baby cry.
I do not in any way regret trying for a vbac. I am so proud of how far I got and how long I labored. So even though my vbac was unsuccessful, I was successful in giving my body the change to labor. Now I don't feel so cheated in the experience. Good luck ladies.
I woke up on Monday at 3:00am with contractions every 5-10mins. I had very frequent bowel movements and felt most comfortable on the toilet. I stuck it out all day and waited for my weekly ob visit that afternoon. Sadly I was only 1cm, 90% effaced, -1 station so it was called early labor. I went home and labored that whole night, the pain was bad enough that I still had not slept. At 12:30 I woke dh up and told him it's time to go if we get sent home, we get sent home. I was cursing through contractions every 5-7 mins and starting to shake. On our 45 min commute they picked up to every 3 mins. The ob checked me and I was 3-4cm so it was go time. I got an epi and was checked about 6hrs later, 8cm. I was so excited, I was getting my vbac. A couple of hours later still 8. A couple hours after that 9cm, 100%, 0. 6hrs later the exact same. They upped my pitocin at this point and I started to have back labor. 2hrs later and my cervix started to swell so they called it an 8. At that point they said that I had to have a section for failure to progress bc they couldn't use a stronger dose of pitocin bc I was vbac. 40 hours into labor, 40 hours of no sleep, 1cm from getting my vbac and I was wheeled to the or. 15mins later I heard sweet baby cry.
I do not in any way regret trying for a vbac. I am so proud of how far I got and how long I labored. So even though my vbac was unsuccessful, I was successful in giving my body the change to labor. Now I don't feel so cheated in the experience. Good luck ladies.
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Re: My unsuccessful vbac
GSx1 - 05/13/2013
GSx2 for T&B - EDD 6/21/2015 - They're having a GIRL!
Thanks for sharing! Sorry you didn't get your VBAC. Do you mind sharing why you had your first c-section? With my first baby I got stuck at 9 as well and had a c-section. I wish they let me wait longer but they didn't. This time I'm hoping they let me wait as long as I want!
~after 34 cycles we finally got our 2nd little bundle of joy~
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My first was overdue when they induced me. Despite being on Pitocin labor, I feel like I didn't experience labor the way it was suppose to be and I sometimes wonder if the failure to progress and consequential ceasarian wasn't because my daughter just wasn't ready to be born.