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June 2011 Moms
Luv4Minnesota
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XP: Any other VBAC'ers?
Luv4Minnesota
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I had an awful experience with my labor and eventual c-section delivery with my first son. I am going to have a VBAC with this baby. Anyone with me?
I am working to find my provider (not going with the same OB as last time). Today I called the 2 large clinics in my area (basically the only 2 clinics in the area-several locations each) and asked for statistics on each OB's c-section rates and successful VBAC rates. The first clinic told me (after being transferred to 3 different people and being on hold for over 20 minutes) that I'd have to leave a message for their coordinator who was out of town this week.
The second clinic told me "we don't keep those statistics". The lady I was talking to was very nice and understanding when I told her I didn't believe her and asked to talk to her business manager. She said she would do some more checking and call me back.
I knew I would have to fight for my VBAC. I didn't know i would have to fight just to choose my provider!
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Re: XP: Any other VBAC'ers?
Birdie-I actually don't live in the TC anymore and didn't give birth there. Don't have anyone to tell you to avoid there. The best advice I can give you as a first time mom is be informed, know what you are hoping for in your birth (more than healthy baby, healthy mom--that really isn't enough sometimes) and read everything you can get your hands on. Watch "The Business of Being Born" , etc. I am educated now, but just thought I'd get my epi and push my baby out and go home...not the way it happened.
Kel-I live in too small of an area to have a local board...that was a good suggestion though!
I had an entirely different emergency c-section experience as I had developed Pre-E and HELLP Syndrome with my son....and it was a case of delivery him safely ASAP.
My new OB (we moved last January) is insisting that as long as there are no complications during pregnancy that I VBAC....no fight required.
And even my old OB had recomended VBAC with our next child as well. So that wouldn't have been a fight either. I thought that most OB's were now pushing for VBAC's instead of Once a c-section always a c-section.
Although as I understand it...your option for VBAC depends greatly on how they preformed your c-section to begin with....So as long as they cut horizontally (between the hip bones) I don't see why you would have to put up such a fight regardless of which OB your seeing.
I would just pick a doctor and say here are my c-section records and as long as you think its safe I would like to go VBAC this time.
I hope it is that easy. However, I think that it is really easy to say "Yes, you can do a VBAC" but when the time actually comes stories change. I have read too many horror stories just to pick one and hope for the best. I am looking for numbers to back up their language.
An OB might say she'll let me VBAC, but if her successful VBAC rate is only 20% then she probably really doesn't mean it.
Done and done. Thanks for the advice! I'm working with a midwife and really interested in a natural birth, so hopefully we'll be able to follow my birth plan as close as possible (or at least respond to any emergency in a way I'm comfortable with).