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valerieanne9015

I'm curious to see if there is a difference.  It seems like most of the women on this board are very proRCS, and obvioulsy the VBAC board is pro that.  I'm wondering if that has to so with the type of c/s experience a women had the first time.  So I'm also posting this on the VBAC board to see what it looks like.  [Poll]

Kie310

While my c/s was unscheduled, and even after 24+ hours of labor, it still went very well & my recovery went well. I would kill for a VBAC this time and any other time I might have children.

sstover1117

SS - Was not an emergency and labor never started. Failed induction at 41 weeks.

saywhut82

My emergency c-section was because labor started as a result of my incompetent cervix dilating. 

HotChocolate79

sstover1117:

SS - Was not an emergency and labor never started. Failed induction at 41 weeks.

 

this exactly, except I had two inductions and made no progress whatsoever.  

mkwt

I knew I was going to have a c-section as my DD was breech, but my water broke and I had cord prolapse so I had to have an emergency c-section

lovebug33

My c/s was after an induction gone wrong. I will have an RCS if I have another because the whole trauma of labor and then a c/s was too much for me.

fancefpp

Unplanned - labor never started after three day induction. They tried everything!!!

mben1119

Unplanned c-section after 2 hours of unsuccessful pushing and attempted vacuum extraction. DS was OP and would not descend. Terrible recovery.

RayRay007

Just curious, how will you determine a correlation b/w c/s experience and pro-rcs v. pro-vbac attitudes? Just based on your very general observations about the attitudes on this board?

Zimger

VBAC is not an option for me.

nesenotes

Water broke, 24 hours of labor, and stalled at 6...

nosoup4u

RayRay007:

Just curious, how will you determine a correlation b/w c/s experience and pro-rcs v. pro-vbac attitudes? Just based on your very general observations about the attitudes on this board?

Gotta agree. 

I think whether one wants a RCS has to do with:

A. if it's even offered as an option (though most women should have it as an option!). Less than 10% of women with a prior c/s are even given the chance to VBAC right now.

If someone is at a practice that VBAC isn't an option, chances are the doctors there are going to downplay the benefits of it, and overstate the risks.

B. How stressful the c/s was. If someone had a planned c/s, but feels like she wasn't part of that decision-making process, chances are she might view it differently than if the she had a part in deciding to have one (the c/s was for a very obvious reason, like the baby was in distress or breech, etc.).

 

Angela814

My 1st was unplanned after failure to progress. It wasn't an emergency, but when my cervix started swelling closed, we had no choice but to have a c-section.

I "attempted" a vbac with my 2nd. Because of the conditions of my 1st, I was only allowed to go to my due date. DD2 was born via c-section 2 days late. I never went into labor, so it was essentially a planned c-section.

DC3 will be a planned c-section around 39 weeks. :-(

Mama-Bear

I knew from the beginning that I'd have a good chance of having a c/s because I was carrying twins.  My OB said I could only attempt a vaginal delivery if both babies were head down and A was bigger than B.  As the weeks went on and they were still breech, I knew the chances of ending up with a c/s were going up rapidly and the chance for anyone turning was slim because there was NO room.  It was scheduled maybe a month prior to delivery, but we knew we were headed for a c/s towards the beginning of the 3rd tri. 

While my c/s wasn't bad at all, I'm very pro-VBAC and I plan to have a VBAC with this baby.  I won't be too disappointed to end up with another c/s, but I still don't want to deal with major surgery if I don't have to.  I mostly come to this board to offer my experience.  Before my c/s I was TERRIFIED, it helped to hear others say that it really wasn't as bad as I was making it out to be.

thepretzelchick

I voted SS only because my c/s wasn't technically unplanned. OB told me at 39 week appt that because of how big LO was and the fact that his head was still bobbling, which made doc think LO's head was too big to engage, I'd probably have to have a c/s, but state insurance tends to frown on scheduled c/s for first babies when it's not an emergency. I was induced at 40w6d and labored for 12 hours before LO's head got stuck, as doc predicted. So even though it might be deemed an "emergency" or "unplanned" after going into labor, I figured beforehand that it was inevitable. 

mandapie

Failed induction on due date, lost DS heartrate for more the 30sec so they called the section after 4hrs of pitocin.

valerieanne9015

nosoup4u:

RayRay007:

Just curious, how will you determine a correlation b/w c/s experience and pro-rcs v. pro-vbac attitudes? Just based on your very general observations about the attitudes on this board?

Gotta agree. 

I think whether one wants a RCS has to do with:

A. if it's even offered as an option (though most women should have it as an option!). Less than 10% of women with a prior c/s are even given the chance to VBAC right now.

If someone is at a practice that VBAC isn't an option, chances are the doctors there are going to downplay the benefits of it, and overstate the risks.

B. How stressful the c/s was. If someone had a planned c/s, but feels like she wasn't part of that decision-making process, chances are she might view it differently than if the she had a part in deciding to have one (the c/s was for a very obvious reason, like the baby was in distress or breech, etc.).

 

Sorry, I don't get on here too much and just saw this.  Just from reading responses in the past, I've noticed that many women on this board have said that they are going with an RCS because they felt out of control/traumatized by their first c/s.  I don't read a whole lot on the VBAC board, but I got the sense that many of them did not have those "traumatic" experiences like the wome on the c/s board. 

Most of you will not be able to see the results of both polls, but on thos poll the unplannedbut not emer and emer c/s numbers were almost the same.  But on the VBAC board, the unplanned, but not emer is 13% higher than the emer c/s one.  I know this is all generalizations, but I read that as more women with "traumatic" emergency c/s are leaning towards/choosing RCS, while women who may not have had the total loss of control of a emer c/s are leaning towards VBAC.  Obviously, a lot goes into the decision, I just thought it woudl be interesting to see if there was in difference between the 2 boards, and it looks like there is.

RayRay007

valerieanne9015:

nosoup4u:

RayRay007:

Just curious, how will you determine a correlation b/w c/s experience and pro-rcs v. pro-vbac attitudes? Just based on your very general observations about the attitudes on this board?

Gotta agree. 

I think whether one wants a RCS has to do with:

A. if it's even offered as an option (though most women should have it as an option!). Less than 10% of women with a prior c/s are even given the chance to VBAC right now.

If someone is at a practice that VBAC isn't an option, chances are the doctors there are going to downplay the benefits of it, and overstate the risks.

B. How stressful the c/s was. If someone had a planned c/s, but feels like she wasn't part of that decision-making process, chances are she might view it differently than if the she had a part in deciding to have one (the c/s was for a very obvious reason, like the baby was in distress or breech, etc.).

 

Sorry, I don't get on here too much and just saw this.  Just from reading responses in the past, I've noticed that many women on this board have said that they are going with an RCS because they felt out of control/traumatized by their first c/s.  I don't read a whole lot on the VBAC board, but I got the sense that many of them did not have those "traumatic" experiences like the wome on the c/s board. 

Most of you will not be able to see the results of both polls, but on thos poll the unplannedbut not emer and emer c/s numbers were almost the same.  But on the VBAC board, the unplanned, but not emer is 13% higher than the emer c/s one.  I know this is all generalizations, but I read that as more women with "traumatic" emergency c/s are leaning towards/choosing RCS, while women who may not have had the total loss of control of a emer c/s are leaning towards VBAC.  Obviously, a lot goes into the decision, I just thought it woudl be interesting to see if there was in difference between the 2 boards, and it looks like there is.

I frequent and post on both boards, and I'm sure a lot of others do too (although, I guess if you aren't interested in vbacs, you wouldn't, but a lot of vbac moms will post here).

FWIW, I had a crazy out-of-control emergency c/s without even being in labour (like, literally crashing into the doorway with the gurney because they were in too much of a hurry to let the rails down, running down the hall while 6 nurses and residents were trying to place lines, alarms going, people yellling, etc., no time to sign paperwork and DH never made it...) and I am pro-vbac. I don't feel the need to do a rcs so I can have control over it this time.

palma44

I didn't have a bad c-section experience, it was great actually and I think it is a great option but I had a c-section and I really want a vaginal birth experience so I WILL be attempting VBAC.

magdalina.h

It was semi emergency. I was 28w4d and they said "We're opening you up in an hour he needs to come out." It wasn't a situation like a cord prolapse, but it was an emergency because my cord had failed.

megastar007

SS- somewhere in between unplanned and emergency.  I had a 36hr failed induction due to pre-eclampsia.  DS had a few bouts of tachycardia and my BP kept climbing so into surgery we went

valkyriemama

My was planned because my son was breech.  My second was supposed to be a VBAC, but they thought my daughter was 10 lbs and scared me out of the VBAC.  She wasn't but it was too late then.  To get a VBA2C I'd have had to homebirth and that's not my thing, so I had the third and will be having the 4th c section at the end of the month.

Mrs. Alice

I voted planned a few weeks ahead but it wasn't really scheduled.  We knew it would be a c/s because of my complications, but didn't know quite when.  It was a day by day thing.

Rebecca2024

Any future pregnancies of mine will be a RCS due to the type of incision made.

I labored but my daughter got stuck and her stats started to plummet.
While preforming the section, the doctor had to make two incisions going perpendicular of each other to have enough room to vacuum her back up out of my pelvis.
She was a 10lb+ baby with a head circumference off the charts.  (Her head still consistently measures in the 98%-off the chart range at all her well baby visits.)

So... I don't get a choice.  That's why I will choose a RCS.  
(40wk baby - no gestational diabetes)

EDIT: Sorry; I didn't catch that this post was so old.  I didn't mean to bring it to the top (if you sort that way).