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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, the rates really don't mean much out of context.  Sibley, which has a reputation for being more fast and lose with the sections, is also in the middle of an area of town with a lot of older mothers. However, I know someone who actually was recently told that a scheduled C section was off the table EVEN THOUGH it would have been her second section -- even her Sibley-delivering doctor was pushing a VBAC as the "default," unless there were other reasons to have a C section.  So, C-section or not really is a personalized outcome.

I think that anecdotes, stories from people who have recently had babies at GW with the doctors there, and [i]your own personal conversations[/i] with the providers are much more illuminating "facts" than a statistic, in this case. C-Sections are life-saving, important, and necessary for many, many women who swear from the get-go that they're not having one.  More important than knowing that 40% of Sibley births are done by C section (making that up) is talking with your own doctor about your own needs, because there are way too many conflating variables here.   [/quote]

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