back up scheduling a RCS...advice needed!

celiacmama

i am planning on a VBAC this go around with DD. my OB is on board, the hospital is on board, etc. but at my most recent appt. the NMW suggested i schedule a C/S as a backup because they won't let me go beyond 41 weeks. and this would allow me to schedule the early slot on a friday AM with the OB of my choice instead of waiting until 41 weeks and getting whoever was there that day at whatever time was left.

i am so torn. part of me thinks if i end up in the 41 week situation and having the RCS, id like it in the AM on a friday with the OB of my choice. why wouldn't i?!

but the other part of me worries that by even scheduling it i will have given up? i really dont want another C/S and have been relatively positive this pregnancy about getting the VBAC but i feel like i need to make this big decision! 

 so VBAC ladies.....schedule the back up or don't schedule? 

preggersINschool25

Unless you plan on going longer than 41 weeks if it doesn't happen naturally or you don't want to/can't get induced, I would schedule it.

palma44

I would schedule it, it wouldn't make me give up, it would make me fight harder knowing how much I don't want the c/s.

Cooper81

I was due this past sat, and I've had my RCS scheduled for the past 2 months, for the 18th. It's not really giving up to schedule it if your provider will only go past a certain point, IMO.

blondie42107

I have been fighting this exact battle.  I cried ALOT but my RCS date is set.  I'm hoping that LO arrives before then but I just try to remind myself that although I want a VBAC badly and even if I do go into labor on my own, it could result in a RCS.  I've been trying to look at the "bonus" of having it scheduled for 9am (in my case) and hoping that I can at least go in well rested (yeah right - I likely won't sleep the night before...lol) and get to start my day with my new LO.

Good luck! 

Angela814

I would absolutely schedule the back up. If you would go past 41 weeks, you'd have to have a c/s anyway, right? I think it's better to be on the schedule than to have them try to fit you in somewhere.

My OB wouldn't let me go past my due date with DD2. I had my RCS scheduled for 40w2d. Of course, I didn't have any signs of labor with her at all. I ended up with the RCS, but even if I hadn't been scheduled, I still would have needed a RCS. DD2 was even bigger than DD1. There's no way I would have been able to deliver her vaginally. (My c/s with DD1 was after failure to progress. I made it to 9.5cm before my cervix started swelling closed. She was 9lbs 2oz, 22", and sunny side up. DD2 was 9lbs 4oz, 21 1/2" and also sunny side up. I basically had no chance.)

Aloe0l

I know someone who had it scheduled at 41 weeks, but she was already showing signs of labor (early labor, not necessarily 100% active labor) so they let her cancel her appointment to see how she progressed and rescheduled her later that week.  She ended up having a successful VBAC at 41w5d.

So, even if you do schedule it, that still doesn't mean you have to go if you don't feel comfortable with it. 

preg_amy

I had the choice to schedule it or not (obviously).  I chose to schedule it.  My doula didn't think I should because she was worried I would feel pressured.

But I actually felt better because I was comfortable with the OB I scheduled it with (I saw a MW, but had to check in with an OB twice during my pregnancy).  I had a horrible c/s experience, and it actually made me feel like there was less pressure on me because I know that my c/s plan involved a really great OB.

I was able to schedule it around 40w, 3d by their schedule, but by my own calculations (I know my cycle length, which is 26 days) it was actually 40w, 5d.

preg_amy

Also, funny story.  I was at home snuggling my VBAC baby and I got a call reminding me to go in for my c/s the next morning.  Way to look at the charts, folks.