Newbie w/question about "failure to progress"

riwaka

Hi ladies...I am due w/#2 in Oct. and am very interested in VBAC, but I can't get a very good sense from resources on line and from my doc (who is generally VBAC supportive and has encouraged me to look into a doula with VBAC experience) of what my chances are.  I was FTP and had c-section 48 hours after my water broke, but didn't have contractions.  They let me go 24 hours without any pitocin, and I made it another 17 without the epidural (which probably helped me at that point because I was exhausted) but DB never descended and I still never dilated past 6 cm, even with insane amounts of pit.  My main question is how flukish is it to have your membranes rupture w/o labor starting? Is it likely to happen again?  I was a few days before my due date, I would never have been induced were it not for the fluid leak - so I feel like I should think of this more as a failed induction starting basically from zero.  Is that nuts?  I just want to be able to pick up my 3 yo when I get home with the new LO!

cynnnabun

With DD1, my water broke but I never started contractions on my own. They put me on pit to get contractions going, but it was a slow process. I ended up getting an epidural because I couldn't deal and it slowed it even more. Her heartrate kept dropping and I wasn't progressing. I got to a 9, but her heart rate plummeted and I ended up with an emergency c-section.

With DD2, I was 3cm dilated at my MW appointments. I went into labor on my own, having contractions. When I went into the hospital I was 5cm already, and progressed quickly and easily. I ended up with an epidural again, but still progressed fully. Pushed for 30 minutes and had my baby girl!

I think the same thing. I had a failed induction. I think my water broke with DD1 for whatever reason, but my body wasn't on board and wasn't ready.

My VBAC was great and my body did exactly what it was supposed to do! I think you have great chances, considering your story sounds alot like mine! Good luck!

honkytonk_kid

ROM before labor starts happens about 10ish% of the time, so fairly unlikely to happen again but not out of the question.

lorryfach

honkytonk_kid:

ROM before labor starts happens about 10ish% of the time, so fairly unlikely to happen again but not out of the question.

This. Plus, as far as I know, it's not something that is more likely to happen just because it happened once before. But someone correct me if I'm wrong! 

StaceFace09

riwaka:

Hi ladies...I am due w/#2 in Oct. and am very interested in VBAC, but I can't get a very good sense from resources on line and from my doc (who is generally VBAC supportive and has encouraged me to look into a doula with VBAC experience) of what my chances are.  I was FTP and had c-section 48 hours after my water broke, but didn't have contractions.  They let me go 24 hours without any pitocin, and I made it another 17 without the epidural (which probably helped me at that point because I was exhausted) but DB never descended and I still never dilated past 6 cm, even with insane amounts of pit.  My main question is how flukish is it to have your membranes rupture w/o labor starting? Is it likely to happen again?  I was a few days before my due date, I would never have been induced were it not for the fluid leak - so I feel like I should think of this more as a failed induction starting basically from zero.  Is that nuts?  I just want to be able to pick up my 3 yo when I get home with the new LO!

 

Riwaka - I'm not kidding when I tell you that this is EXACTLY my birth story, with the only exception being that I only ever got to 4cm. CRAZY!!

 Anyway, just wanted to let you know that MY doctor said that there's no reason to think the same thing will happen again. He said that he has no idea why my water broke when it did and that it sounds like my body was not ready for labor.

Just to encourage you, I am now 41 weeks pregnant, hoping for a VBAC and so far, my experience is so much different from last time. I can tell that my body is actual getting ready to birth a baby on it's own this time. I'm dialating (slowly at 1.5cm currently, but still, progress is progress) and I've had lots of REAL contractions on-and-off for the past couple weeks, and a ton of cervical mucus. I just didn't have anything except some BH contractions last time before my water broke.

I just really believe every pregnancy is different and there's no reason to suspect you can't have a VBAC based on your 1st experience.

Why not just try it? You can always have a RCS if things don't turn out.

Hope this helps some! I'll be sure to post my full experience of labor this time after my baby boy is born!

 

 

riwaka

Thanks everyone, this is really encouraging - I keep telling DH that it's DD's fault for thrashing a hole in her habitat before she was done cooking! Here's hoping this little guy stays put until he's really good and ready to come out.