Met a VBACer IRL!

RandiDeeAnn

I subbed at the local elementary today and got to talking to one of the P.E. teachers about children and health, etc. So it came up that I was expecting and that I'd be trying to VBAC. Because most people don't know what that means I confined saying "birth vaginally after a section". She said, "I did that. I didn't know it was called something, but when I got pg with my second I had been told once a c/s always a c/s." Then she went on to say that she went to her appt. and thought she was supposed to schedule one, but the doc said, "you're not having a section this time. There's no reason."!!!!! I about fell over. This was years ago before the ban at the local hospital. Her first section was for breech presentation. She delivered vaginally with a 14 HR. labor. Didn't progress until the end and wasn't pressured! She said the difference was huge and encouraged me that I needed to and could! Btw, she got pg again after the VBAC, and the ban, and they told her it would have to be a section! Crazy! Sadly, she lost that baby.

iris427

RandiDeeAnn:

I subbed at the local elementary today and got to talking to one of the P.E. teachers about children and health, etc. So it came up that I was expecting and that I'd be trying to VBAC. Because most people don't know what that means I confined saying "birth vaginally after a section". She said, "I did that. I didn't know it was called something, but when I got pg with my second I had been told once a c/s always a c/s." Then she went on to say that she went to her appt. and thought she was supposed to schedule one, but the doc said, "you're not having a section this time. There's no reason."!!!!! I about fell over. This was years ago before the ban at the local hospital. Her first section was for breech presentation. She delivered vaginally with a 14 HR. labor. Didn't progress until the end and wasn't pressured! She said the difference was huge and encouraged me that I needed to and could! Btw, she got pg again after the VBAC, and the ban, and they told her it would have to be a section! Crazy! Sadly, she lost that baby.

This makes me stabby.  Even now that I've had a VBAC, I still worry I'll get forced into another section if I get pregnant again. 

myantonia

Isn't it exciting to meet someone IRL?!  It's kinda crazy that it's still such a "rare breed".  I was at an ICAN meeting last night, where we were talking about the hospitals in our town..... we only had stats for one of them.  But at that hospital, there were 100 VBACs attempted last year out of over 3000 births.  70 were successful.  That means there are 70 women in my town somewhere    I met a woman last night who had a successful VBAC with the same OB I'm using.... that made me super excited!