Weekly Check-In

lorryfach

Hi, ladies! Have we heard from wendylaine yet??

Question of the week: What's your #1 main motivation for VBAC?

(Future QOTW suggestions welcome via PM or by posting in the thread.) 

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If you want to be on the check-in, post your EDD, and any other dates (appointments, scans, etc.) you want to share and I'll make a list.  

Graduates can post their birth story links, and anyone can share their older baby's stories or summaries as well.

Recent Events - Any updates??

any day now - wendylaine's girl's arrival! 

03/14 sweetgirl82's 30-week m/w appt 

03/15 kaw2723's full-term(!) check-up

03/21 J&MsMom's 16-week appointment 

Upcoming 

03/29 kaw2723's 39-week check-up

04/07 BaumMom's sonogram (fluid check) 

Due Date List

03/06 wendylaine (team pink) 

04/01 kaw2723 (team pink) 

05/05 iris427 (team green)

05/09 LiLuBee (team blue)

05/13 beckynick04 (team pink) 

05/22 sweetgirl82 (team pink) 

06/02 mrsbookworm (team pink) 

06/13 BaumMom (team pink)

07/16 giselleacttwo (team pink) 

 

07/23 MrsVictoriaB (team blue) 

08/25 J&MsMom (VBA2C) 

09/27 Brownie_222

Graduates' Birth Stories 

2010 

10/13 lorryfach's VBAC. Girl, 7lb 9oz. 20.5" born 40w2d 

12/20 Jb&Jb's VBAC with GD.  Boy, 8lb 0.2oz 21.5" born 40w3d

2011

01/15 SaraLynn21's VBAC. Boy, 6 lb 20" born 39w4d 

Older Baby Births 

2008

09/10 lorryfach's C/S for stubborn posterior asynclitic baby. Girl, 7lb. 8oz. 21" born 41w

12/15 Jb&Jb's c/s for FTP and non-reassuring fetal heart tones.  Girl, 8lb 13.4oz  21.75" born 41w0d 

2009

06/?? SaraLynn21's c/s for FTP, posterior baby. Boy, 6 lb 19" born 40w

LiluBee

Morning!  My main motivation is to not have major surgery that will be prevent me from parenting the way I want to for both my baby and my 4 year old immediately after the birth.  I don't want to be bed ridden, even for just a day. 

Brownie_222

Hi! My main motivation is an easier recovery and immediate bonding with baby #2. I'm interviewing provider #4 this afternoon (CNM/birth center). I really like her so far - exchanged emails. Happy Friday everyone!

sweetgirl82

My main motivation is that I know a VBAC is the healthiest option for my body and my child.  I also hope to have the experience of labor, vaginal birth, etc. since the last time I only made it to 5cm.  DS's birth experience was so far from the norm due to me having the stomach flu during labor.  Everything seemed to go wrong so I am hoping for a more typical birth.

Brownie_222

Also wanted to say that I'm curious how wendylaine is. I wish she would post an update.

iris427

Hmm I guess my number 1 motivation is I just really want to push my baby out.  I can't really rationalize it, I just feel that way.  And after having such a negative c/s experience, I feel even more strongly about it.

kaw2723

I'll be having my 39 week check-up on 3/29 and hoping that everything's still going the way it needs to in order to have my VBAC.

Like PP, my main motivation for VBAC is a faster recovery that will allow me to take better care of my 3-year-old and baby. Another huge reason though is that I never even got a TOL with DD#1, and I really want to have that experience. And as a third reason, after having 2 miscarriages trying to have another child, I really want to be the first person to hold this baby.

beckynick04

Add me to the due date list, please   May 13th

My main motivation for a vbac is getting the experience I wanted with ds and didn't have a chance to experience.  I place a fair amount of blame for us not breastfeeding and having a touch of PPD on both the c/s and not knowing enough to advocate for myself and for what would be best for us.

This time I just envision pushing my baby out without drugs or medications and immediately feeling like we've done something together.  I think just the process of birth will help bond us and not feel as detached as the c/s, kwim?  I also hope it will help us with nursing as I was devastated when I wasn't able to nurse ds and absolutely hated the 4 months I put into EPing.  I don't want to do that again.

EDIT: I'm team pink.

BaumMom

You can add me to the list, please!

I'm BaumMom, my EDD is June 13th, team pink, and I have a sonogram coming up on April 7th because my fundal height is already measuring 3 weeks ahead and my OB wants to see if I have excess fluid or if she is just a big baby. Boo. 

First c/s was unplanned after 21 hours of labor and 2 hours of pushing, I developed a fever (due to chorioamnionitis - infection of amniotic sac), baby's heart rate was "troubling" and he did not descend at all during pushing...so my doctor suspects CPD. 

My main motivation for a VBAC is I just plain want to experience childbirth in the manner my body was designed to do. Part of that is also because I know that it is the healthiest way for me and my baby. 

 

giselleacttwo

I'd like to be added! I'm team pink and due on July 16th.

My main motivation is that I suffered PTSD and PPD after a horribly complicated Emergency C/S at 35 weeks with Baby #2.  I'd rather not go through that again.

This was after a textbook natural birth at a birth center with Baby #1.

 Reminds me of a saying I heard that went something like this.

"A wise monkey said to his friend: 'I've been rich, and I've been poor....rich is better.'"

I've seen the other side and already know that I find it infinitely preferable.