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**meggiekins**

CougBride07CougBride07
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I'm confused why you equate having a homebirth with not getting any prenatal care? Explain.
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  • meggiekinsmeggiekins

    It was more a question of whether you plan on having a licensed attendant at the birth, and the correlation that most of the time, the person giving you prenatal care delivers your baby. It seems as though you are very opposed to medical intervention during your delivery, and I was wondering how far that goes.

    And honestly, I find it irresponsible and dangerous to do a VBAC at home, and to refuse a hospital birth, especially in a case where you are already at risk. I also consider no prenatal care to be irresponsible, and thought that since you seem so hellbent on no medical delivery, you might be anti doctor or healthcare in general for pg.

    And FWIW, to me a homebirth, and homebirth VBAC, are like apples and oranges.

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  • CougBride07CougBride07
    I am definitely planning on having very good prenatal care. I have an amazing midwife that is extremely experienced in VBAC homebirth. I will also have a backup OB/GYN that specializes in VBACs and is supportive of my decision to have my baby at home. I did have a very traumatic experience  at the hospital and did seek counseling. The first thing my counselor said was that I need to take back the power I felt was lost in my DD hospital birth, and do my next birth at home, where I am in control of my body. Although I respect your view on how risky VBACs are, I would invite you to do some of your own research on it. In fact, only 8 out of 1000 (.8%) women experience uterine rupture during a VBAC. To me this small percentage is not worth the pain I went through physically and emotionally, as well as the poor service I received at one of the best hospitals in the country. Also, a hospital is 2 minutes away if such emergencies were to arise.
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  • vanillacouragevanillacourage member
    Yes but published studies have shown that only 60% of attempted VBAC's are successful, so it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility that you'll need a repeat c/s.

    And according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynocologists, the risk of rupture is 1 in 500.

    Again, irresponsible IMO.
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    DS1 born June 2008 | m/c at 9w March 2011 | DS2 born April 2012
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  • CougBride07CougBride07
    I guess my argument would be that VBACs are not well respected by the medical community simply because c-sections are favored by a majority of OB/GYNs, so the support for vaginal birth, and VBACs isn't there. I'm offended that you think I am being irresponsible. I personally find it irresponsible to have surgery when you clearly don't need it. but thats just IMO ;)
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  • vanillacouragevanillacourage member
    imageCougBride07:
    . I personally find it irresponsible to have surgery when you clearly don't need it. but thats just IMO ;)


    :: raises eyebrows ::

    Anything specific that you're referencing here? 
    Lilypie First Birthday tickers
    DS1 born June 2008 | m/c at 9w March 2011 | DS2 born April 2012
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  • CougBride07CougBride07
    nope, just IMO. Agree to disagree! I'll let you know if you were right in a few years ;)
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  • meggiekinsmeggiekins

    Actually, I did my research, thank you. Maybe if I had researched harder, my bp would have stayed down, the protein would have magically disappeared from my urine, and I could have avoided my 2nd c-section and gone through with the VBAC (in the hospital) that I intended, with the full support of my OB. BTW- That was pretty much the same answer I gave your craptastic BFing post.

    It must be wonderful to feel that you are the only well educated person in the world, despite some of your obviously flawed statistics. If we all could google and C&P like you, maybe we could know a shred of the awesomeness it is to be you. ::eye roll::

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