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maggiemooandyou
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YES! This might really happen!
maggiemooandyou
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So I'm 36 weeks today and my cervical exam was 2-3/70%/-2. My OB had mentioned sectioning at 39 weeks if I decided against the VBAC, so I clairfied and he told me as long as my blood pressure and BPP's remain normal that he would allow me to go until my due date before we need to section. Which I'm happy with. I wouldn't feel comfortable going over due to GD and HTN.
When I asked he said I would most likely go into labor within the next week or two since I'm making cervical change and contracting pretty regularly. (granted, the more I do- the more I contract)
If I make it to May 10th my boys will be 17 months apart. I'm really excited to be able to go into labor on my own, as with DS1 I was induced because they thought he was going to be a 9+ baby (he was 6#15oz), never the less he was asynclitic with a nuchal x2, and resulted in a c-section at 37 weeks exactly.
I just want to make it one more week so this kiddo can gain as much weight as possible (longer if possible), I am a bit scared of this baby being asynclitic and so molded to my pelvis that I will end up needing another section. My OB reassured me that chances are low that this baby will positioned the same.
Yay for no induction, and doing this on my own. It's hard being an L&D nurse- and the majority of the nurses I work with are always trying to talk me out of the VBAC due to the risks of rupture etc, or making me feel guilty for not just going ahead and having the section with the old addage "It doesn't make you more of a woman to deliver vaginally". Thank God I get to chose who labors me and catches my baby.
I just want all of you VBAC-ers to hear this from someone that labors people for a living- DO NOT LET A NURSE talk you out of trying to VBAC. The decision is you and your doctors alone. As a fellow Mom wanting to VBAC, nothing pisses me off more when I see or hear of a nurse scaring the sh*t out of a Mom with horror stories of what COULD go wrong. (ok rant over)
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Re: YES! This might really happen!
Sounds like you're making good progress. And if you contract more by doing more....then by all means get walking. Keep us posted!
I definitely agree on the nurse issue. I really wish I had had the guts to kick my L&D nurse to the curb with #1. It was my first birth and she was pushing me to give up and just get the c-section. She was also a horrible labor coach. Next time, I plan to stand up for myself. And if I don't have a supportive nurse, I will ask for a new one.
I can't believe your coworkers would be doing that to you! As if they know more than you and you do the same job. So sad.
All of the nurses surrounding my VBAC were great. When the shift changed and the night nurses arrived, my CNM handpicked my nurse (knowing I'd probably deliver in the middle of the night). She came in all excited and whispering that she got me the BEST nurse before anyone else could take her and that she'd be awesome. And she was. For the most part, all of the nurses were really excited for me and but that night nurse was the greatest nurse EVER. I think it also helped that she and my CNM were very friendly. When I delivered, it was them and my DH in the room in the middle of the night and it really almost felt like a sleep over . .. . . and I happened to deliver a baby in the middle of it;-)