What does your doctor think about your candidacy for a vbac? Also, have you seen this? https://mfmu.bsc.gwu.edu/PublicBSC/MFMU/VGBirthCalc/vagbirth.html

OP, Talk with your OB and do some reading about factors that lead to successful VBACs. Are you a good candidate? Do your docs think so? Are they truly supportive of VBACs?

See what is specific to you as much as you can.

I just had a schedule csection this week. The main factors were that I was not a great VBAC candidate *and* that I was so out of it during the emergency section. The small possibilty of a successful VBAC wasn't worth the risk of reliving that experience. So, what feels right to you? What is your tolerance for possibly having another emergency c?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Heard that tears/issues down below can be just as difficult as c section recovery. Any truth to that?

Some can be. Most aren't. But you never know what will happen with you.

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My second degree tear was so much easier to recover from. I didn't even notice it, to be perfectly honest.

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Anonymous wrote:I think you'll find more regrets from the people who attempted a VBAC and it didn't work out, than the people who had a VBAC.

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Nothing like going through labor, again, and ending up with a Csection, again.

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Identical situation to you, and the same result. Made it a few more centimeters the second time but still ended up with a c section. Wouldn't say I regret it though; at least I know it was never going to happen.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Heard that tears/issues down below can be just as difficult as c section recovery. Any truth to that?

Some can be. Most aren't. But you never know what will happen with you.

Op here. Heard that tears/issues down below can be just as difficult as c section recovery. Any truth to that?

What do you really want to do? Not what do you think you should want to do. Do the thing that just feels right.

I had 2 c-sections. First one was an emergency c-section. Second was planned. Looking back, I wish I had tried the VBAC w/the second. I feel regret that I did not at least attempt it and I feel robbed of the experience of giving birth. I'm done having kids so that is probably why I feel the regret.

Anonymous wrote:I think you'll find more regrets from the people who attempted a VBAC and it didn't work out, than the people who had a VBAC.

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I really loved mine, fwiw.

I tried for a VBAC by doing everything that was recommended. After a long, unmedicated labor, the decision was made to have a c-section. Even though I did not "succeed," I felt very comfortable that a c-section was necessary. I do not regret my efforts at all. It felt much better than the first labor that ended up in an unexpected c-section that came out of nowhere from my perspective.

I have a friend who didn't exactly regret it, but she said if she could pick again, knowing what she knows now after the vaginal birth, she would do the repeat C section. Most others I know we're glad to do the vbac.

Had a successful VBAC (which doctor referred to as "textbook") but the big-headed baby meanwhile caused a major internal hematoma that then burst. It was a bad scene all around, and I ended up in the ICU and then bed-ridden for a good long time. So, of course, had I known that would happen, I definitely would have just done the C. (My only real interest in not doing another C is that I thought the recovery time would be quicker with a VBAC...in my case, definitely not.)
I think the doctors would all say that this was unrelated to the VBAC, BUT...because of the VBAC, they insisted on epidural (which I might have done anyway). With the epidural, I think I just didn't realize that the baby was pushing in the wrong direction, or too long, or whatever it was that caused the problem. It was also a very busy night in the delivery room, and I think they might have let me sit there too long because I had an epidural so I wasn't really complaining. Once the epidural was unplugged, I was like "Wow -- that does not feel good at all...."
So, obviously, that's just one story.

Anonymous wrote:I think you'll find more regrets from the people who attempted a VBAC and it didn't work out, than the people who had a VBAC.

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Nothing like going through labor, again, and ending up with a Csection, again.

I think you'll find more regrets from the people who attempted a VBAC and it didn't work out, than the people who had a VBAC.

Trying to decide between attempting vbac or scheduling second c section (failure to progress past 7 inches last time). Curious to know if anyone had Vbac and wishes they hadn't.