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looking for advice about my vbac i didnt get..
I am trying to understand this and i will ask at my 6 week appt but thats end of next month so i just wanted your input on what you think. i went to L&D wasnt in labor 39 weeks. However, my blood pressure as elevated so they monitored me for an hr. There were some low and high readings so she wanted to monitor me again for another hr.Those readings were high and it just continued to increase. My last 2 blood pressures at my visits 2 weeks prior was 104/80 and my last visit was 124/80 . But now they were in the 140's and reached 150/? i forget the bottom number before they suggested a rcs. i did not have pre-e she said gestational hypertension. no protein in my urine. i did have edema. The day before i did see spots once. she said she recommended i get a rcs because having high bp can stop the baby from getting oxygen and since my hemoglobin was a 7 and im anemic they dont think a vbac would be a good option. she said my cervix was a fingertip still high and baby hadnt even dropped into my pelvis but she was head down.she said she didnt even think i would go into labor on my own. my first c/s was due to fetal distress and i reached 9 cm. when she said baby no oxygen because thats all i heard because i couldnt believe what she was saying..i agreed to the rcs because i was scared something would happen to her. the midwife also said they dont recommend i get induced because of the risk of uterine rupture and since my cervix was hardly open i could be in painful labor for 2 days. when i heard that i was also afraid of her going into distress because my 1st couldnt handle the pitocin and i didnt want to be put to sleep again.i was pretty upset i wished my normal modwife was on duty but she wasnt. this is someone i saw once but everyone seemed supportive. was a vbac really not an option in my case?
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Re: looking for advice about my vbac i didnt get..
I am not sure, but a friend of my was having really high bp right before she had her baby, and was having a lot of edema. She kept telling me how high it was, and it had me really worried for her, that they weren't inducing or doing a c section. She ended up getting put on bed rest until she had her baby, and her bp went down, and she delivered natural after the dr. accidentally broke her water. I dont remember what her bp was, but I know the top number got over 150.
Ditto PPs. It sounds like you made the best choice. I know we mothers second-guess ourselves a lot but remember to be kind to yourself. You made the right choice for yourself and your baby under the circumstances. Give yourself time to process how the birth went and make peace with it.
I'm sorry things didn't go how you had hoped.