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[quote=Anonymous]I assume if you had an epidural you were pushing on your back? Or were other positions tried? Other positions can open up the pelvis more and allow more effective pushing, as I understand it.
I don't know. It sounds to me like you want to try for the vbac. And yet most of the circumstances surrounding the birth (same doc, who would be going into this expecting it would not work, epidural that may limit feeling/mobility,etc).

I think you'd have greater chance of vbac if you switched to a provider who was enthusiastic and who had ideas about how to change things to make chances of success greater. Even just having a provider who was expecting a vbac to work might make it more of a self fulfilling prophesy.
I had a doc that I liked personally but I left her because I did not think her mode of care was going to optimize my chances of avoiding stuff I did not want. I know it's hard. Maybe call and see another provider or two to see what they say and their ideas for how to approach things, before you make a decision to switch.....that's what I did and I was glad I did because I did end up switching and was very happy. Tho the conversation 'breaking up' with my doc was hard, I reminded myself that docs have tons of patients and probably didn't care as much as I did....good luck![/quote]

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