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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend and her baby almost died when her uterine scar ruptured during labor with her second child. She for sure regrets it. Horrible experience for her. Not worth the risk, IMO, and I refused to try despite a VERY pushy OB who never stopped bugging me to attempt trial of labor. I s--t you not, she was still bugging me when I was in the OR with the anesthesiologist about to give me the epidural. Crazy. Glad I skipped it; [b]DC2 was BIG with a 91st %ile head![/b][/quote]

Vaginal birth of a baby with a head that was above the 99th percentile here.  Uneventful and fine.  Just FYI, in case anyone thought that having a large head meant an automatic C-section.  It does not.[/quote]

No, a large head does not "mean an automatic c-section," but sorry: [b]a large baby/large head absolutely are contraindicated for a successful VBAC.[/b] Your personal success story is irrelevant in the big picture. When things go wrong a VBAC, they go very gravely wrong. The current natural birth fad has influenced - dare I say brainwashed - too many women into thinking they're less of a woman or a mother if they don't have a vaginal birth, but there's an important other side to this issue. VBACs can be successful but they are dangerous.[/quote]

Sorry, no. At least unless all those - I thought - competent, thoughtful OBs at GW are just a bunch of malpracticing nincompoops. My first was over ten pounds, and my second, a successful VBAC - encouraged, by the way, by the OBs as an all around better, safer option in most cases - was born a month early at over 9 pounds.

And I think you need to examine why you think "natural birth" (do you mean vaginal? unmedicated?) is a "fad" that has "brainwashed" women. In the first place, women are able to feel good or bad about their births, vaginal, surgical, medicated or otherwise - no one brainwashes us into thinking a thing. For another the current push is a correction to the fact that VBACs are safe, not inherently dangerous, and, practically speaking, they've been difficult to get in the last ten years. Listen, I'm sorry if you have an issue, but it's clear that you [i]do[/i] have an issue.[/quote]

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