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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, sounds like you would have had a vaginal delivery the first time if you hadn't gotten the second epidural and hadn't given up after 2.5 hours (I pushed for 3 hours and everything happened in the last 18 minutes -- seriously).

The fact that your baby's head was visible in your birth canal for the last labor sounds to me like your birth canal is partially patent. I would think that would increase your success rate for #2, also.

Sounds like your OB is trying to limit liability and do something he's good at (OBs are surgeons, after all). I had an OB for my unmedicated vaginal delivery, but she was very natural-birth-friendly and that made all the difference (she was willing to let me push a long time, willing to let me take as long as I safely needed to for labor, etc).

I would:

1. Hire a doula who has experience with VBAC
2. Take a birth class
3. Find a VBAC-friendly provider (where are you located? we can help with recommendations)

Sounds like you want the VBAC, so go for it! [/quote]

PP again, just realized my first sentence sounds snotty when I meant it to be supportive, like "you were really close, you can totally do it again"[/quote]

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