Sibley Hospital Recent Experience

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Anonymous wrote:3 deliveries at Sibley, unmedicated and vaginal - no one ever pushed a C-section, as others said, it's more so the risk tolerance of your provider. If you don't have complications, then you should be good for a vaginal birth. I do know GWU will tolerate longer births, heard women who have been there for 1-3 days "laboring" and we're pushed for a C-section, but I have also heard some scary stories there too where they were a bit too liberal with their decisions...

Yea I was in active labor at gw for 18 hours with many hours if pushing with no progress until given pitocin- baby was sunny side up and stuck. A friend labored like 60 hours and wishes gw allowed c Section before 72 hrs

Wow, and the babies vitals didn't change at all? Amazing the baby wasn't tired after all that.

Slight hr drop which triggered the pitocin. Baby happy/healthy ( but was very sleepy...also was 2 weeks early).

My friend's kid ended up in nicu briefly due to meconium but healthy now

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My friend had a vaginal birth at sibley. The population a hospital serves will make a huge difference in their C-section rates. For example, beyond age if there is a more diverse population served in terms of income and insurance access c-section rates will typically be higher because often there will be more patients who didn’t receive prenatal care and have higher risk deliveries. So there can be a lot of factors, so make sure you’re looking at the full picture.

I agree with one of the other posters. In hindsight the best thing I could have done for my birth would have been to go in SUPER flexible and assuming medical providers are there with my best interests at heart (because truly, they really are. 99% of them are so most likely the ones you interact with will be). Don’t listen to instagram. It will lead to being unhappy rather than the happy birth you think it will because you will make false assumptions.

This is silly. People disagree about “best interest” all the time. A doctor who pushes a c-section without considering a mothers recovery believes they had the
mothers best interests at heart but may define those best interests differently than the patient does. That’s why the doctrine is “informed consent” not “believe all doctors all the time”.

As someone who recovered from a bad vaginal birth that caused anal incontinence for 12 months, a fractured tailbone, levator ani avulsion, internal vaginal side wall tears, (sulcus/sulcal tears) and a grade 2 perineal tear as well as a bladder and rectal prolapse and chronic pelvic pain, I can tell you that it took 2 years of pelvic PT for me just to be able to function, sit, and walk without pain. Meanwhile, my scheduled c section was a far easier recovery, and I was back to walking with comfort and ease in a few months.

I wish informed consent included educating moms about the risks of vaginal birth. I believed that vaginal birth recovery would be easier than a scheduled C section and I was dead wrong.

And for those of you who say you don’t know anyone who this happened to
Or that this type of outcome is rare, it’s not. Very few people in my life have any idea the personal hell I survived after giving birth, and I can tell you that most women are so devastated, humiliated, and embarrassed about it that we suffer the consequences in silence.

Yepppp. This is very, very common. I wish I had had a c section. Instead, I was a naive first time mom who was told, oh vaginal is such an easy recovery. Not so — it took 2-3 years to regain prior levels of activity, and I will never be the same. If you want a VD after understanding how common avulsions are and how shitty it is to feel like your insides are falling through the bottom of your pelvis, then cool, cool. But it’s not some great badge of honor or epic quest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend had a vaginal birth at sibley. The population a hospital serves will make a huge difference in their C-section rates. For example, beyond age if there is a more diverse population served in terms of income and insurance access c-section rates will typically be higher because often there will be more patients who didn’t receive prenatal care and have higher risk deliveries. So there can be a lot of factors, so make sure you’re looking at the full picture.

I agree with one of the other posters. In hindsight the best thing I could have done for my birth would have been to go in SUPER flexible and assuming medical providers are there with my best interests at heart (because truly, they really are. 99% of them are so most likely the ones you interact with will be). Don’t listen to instagram. It will lead to being unhappy rather than the happy birth you think it will because you will make false assumptions.

This is silly. People disagree about “best interest” all the time. A doctor who pushes a c-section without considering a mothers recovery believes they had the
mothers best interests at heart but may define those best interests differently than the patient does. That’s why the doctrine is “informed consent” not “believe all doctors all the time”.

As someone who recovered from a bad vaginal birth that caused anal incontinence for 12 months, a fractured tailbone, levator ani avulsion, internal vaginal side wall tears, (sulcus/sulcal tears) and a grade 2 perineal tear as well as a bladder and rectal prolapse and chronic pelvic pain, I can tell you that it took 2 years of pelvic PT for me just to be able to function, sit, and walk without pain. Meanwhile, my scheduled c section was a far easier recovery, and I was back to walking with comfort and ease in a few months.

I wish informed consent included educating moms about the risks of vaginal birth. I believed that vaginal birth recovery would be easier than a scheduled C section and I was dead wrong.

And for those of you who say you don’t know anyone who this happened to
Or that this type of outcome is rare, it’s not. Very few people in my life have any idea the personal hell I survived after giving birth, and I can tell you that most women are so devastated, humiliated, and embarrassed about it that we suffer the consequences in silence.

Yepppp. This is very, very common. I wish I had had a c section. Instead, I was a naive first time mom who was told, oh vaginal is such an easy recovery. Not so — it took 2-3 years to regain prior levels of activity, and I will never be the same. If you want a VD after understanding how common avulsions are and how shitty it is to feel like your insides are falling through the bottom of your pelvis, then cool, cool. But it’s not some great badge of honor or epic quest.

I wish more people were honest about this. I had a scheduled c section (was happy to do it) because my first baby was over 10 lbs before 40 weeks. Recovery was really easy… meanwhile a good friend had a baby similar size around the same time and the baby ended up having shoulder dystocia and all kinds of complications came from it, including life long impact on my friend.