Positive v-bac story (I was so on the fence about it!)

watermellens · March 2013

I don't contribute regularly to this board, but was encouraged to share it here...hope that's okay

(xp from March 2013)

Crazy crazy crazy...when I was checked on Monday I was 80% and 1 cm (no progress in the past two weeks) and the doc said a v-bac didn't look in the cards. So I had a section scheduled for today (Wednesday)

And on Tuesday morning, I woke up to contractions and bloody discharge. They became regular quickly; called my doc at 10 am when they were 4 min apart; they sent me to the hospital; water broke on its own around 2; I was checked at 330 and was already 9 cm! Got an epi, pushed for an hour and Kieran was born. He's pretty awesome

Labor was a breeze compared to what I thought it would be in my head - I had so many concerns about trying v-bac and was back and forth with my decision for months. I'm so sad that it almost didn't happen, but thank goodness my body had other plans!

akbride25 · March 2013

Congratulations! So glad it worked out for you!

mrs.jenRN · March 2013

Congrats, mama! I am so happy for you! It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it? I will post my story in the days ahead too. This board really helped encourage me!

A37licia · March 2013

Congratulations! I'm so glad it went smoothly and efficiently, with no doubt he'd be born vaginally! You did it.

angelchild24 · March 2013

Thanks for sharing your story!

I'm not on here very often either, yet (I'm only 11 weeks), but I will probably check it out as I get closer to Oct.

I'm looking forward to reading more success stories like yours!

jesselayne8 · March 2013

That's amazing! Congrats!

Ceci131 · March 2013

Fantastic! Congrats! And thank you for sharing!!

querylove · March 2013

Congratulations!

annabelle.27 · March 2013

Congrats!

This is an excellent example of why cervical checks are useless :

eta: that colon is supposed to be a smiley face but I guess brackets dont work with phones. grrrr