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C-Section Mamas
(I'm just full of nosey questions lately)
If you were to have another baby, would you have another c-section?
Re: C-Section Mamas
I am doing everything I can to have a VBAC this time, for a few reasons:
1) A weird part of me feels cheated out of the vaginal childbirth experience. I had a birth plan and the whole thing went out the window when I didn't progress and Owen went into stress. I didn't even get to hold my baby until he was almost an hour old -- no skin-to-skin contact for us.
2) With a toddler at home who will be adjusting to a BIG change in his life, I can't imagine being in the hospital away from him for 96 (+) hours.
3) Along the same lines, I can't imagine not being allowed to pick up my toddler for a few weeks, and I definitely can't imagine trying to explain that to him, especially at an already confusing time for him.
4) I don't see the point in volunteering for major surgery. If it becomes necessary, so be it, but I'd prefer to try my damnedest to let nature take its course.
To help things along, my MWs are going to give me an internal at 39 weeks and send me to an acupuncturist. The goal is to get me into labor on my own, because they can't induce once you've had a c-section.
Yeah, it's something they didn't tell me until I got pregnant this time and told them I wanted to do VBAC. Apparently the risk for uterine rupture is too high if they give you induction drugs before you go into labor naturally. So that rules out Cytotec and Cervadil for the whole process, and rules out Pitocin for a kickstart. Once you are in active labor, they can give Pitocin to help things along, but that's it.
I wonder if a MW would be hesitant to do a VBAC on a person, like me, who didn't go into labor. I think Abe would have stayed in there forever. Sometimes I think he wants to crawl back in!
I never went into labor either; I was given three induction drugs and experienced some contractions, but never dilated and never got beyond 50% effaced. However, the midwives I work with encourage VBAC, and have a 70% success rate for their patients who have tried.
I hope to try for a VBAC if we ever have another child.... I didn't get ANY of the labor process... heck I never even had an internal exam to check if I was progressing at all, never felt any contractions... and I would really like that experience, but I know that if something goes wrong, a c-section is still an option...
I would really like to at least try and do it and have that baby put on my chest after all the hard work... I didn't get to see the boys until almost 3 hours after they were born and I was totally out of it from all the drugs they had to give me while trying to return my uterus to my body... I would rather not repeat that!
I didn't know it either! I would try for all the reasons MM gave, except I think I would be a bit less worried about the recovery -- mine was pretty easy.