VBAC attempt experience

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Anonymous wrote:I had a csection after 20 hours of labor with first. With the second i was determined to VBAC, since I felt like there was no good reason I should have had a Csection, other than stubborn baby position and laboring too long (water had broken, meconium leaking, minor distress). The C-section was very emotionally traumatic for me, a painful recovery, and also led to some secondary infertility issues. Did not want to go through that again. So I started prepping from the moment I became pregnant with second, including changing OB, finding a doula, reading all I could about birthing, going to a crunchy birth class, and visiting a prenatal chiropractor throughout pregnancy to help with baby position. Visited the hospital with the doula and interrogated all the nurses. Asked my provider tons and tons of questions. Got all my ducks in a row and made sure I had the right support team in place. It was a lot of work and time, but I'm thankful I did it. Had a successful VBAC in a hospital with no interventions (which was key for me - my goal was no help from the hospital other than catching the baby). It was hard, but wonderful, and I learned so much through the process. My recovery was great and it made life with a newborn so easy compared to my other experience.

With all that said, I have a family member have a successful VBAC at home with a midwife, but she basically became a midwife herself in the research process. She was fine. I personally would not be comfortable doing it outside of the hospital setting. As others have written, a lot could go wrong.

I'm surprised a legit midwife would be willing to do this at all. It seems very high risk for a home birth. Maybe if you had a section and this was VBAC 4, but as a second child after a c section? This is crazy to me.

“Legit” midwives do this and more. Mine helped me with a VBA2C at home, and after a minor uterine rupture with #2. Not crazy at all, childbirth is a natural physiological process when guided by trained caregivers, whether at home or in a hospital setting, doesn’t need to be and shouldn’t be so full of all this drama.

No legit midwife would do this. Ridiculous.
I had a uterine window and some OBs wouldn’t touch me. Please tell me how your midwife is going to guide your uterus not to rip back open.

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All birth is physiologic.

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I had two successful VBACs - one at VHC and one at INOVA Fairfax. My first was a pretty textbook labor. It was about 12 hours from first contraction to birth. With the second, it was about 3.5 hours from first contraction to birth. I had epidurals with both. As c-sections go, I had an easy recovery, but my recovery with my VBACs was much, much easier. Another big advantage IMO is that, with the VBACs, I didn’t have restrictions on driving, lifting, climbing stairs, etc. With a newborn only, these restrictions weren’t a big deal, but with a toddler/ two older kids, they would have been. I’m very glad I decided to attempt a VBAC.

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My cousin almost died from uterine rapture from a vbac. She was given every chance with supportive doctors to try for it and yet she almost died.