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Thoughtful Thursday! “You Are A Perfect Candidate For A VBAC…”
“You are a perfect candidate for a VBAC. You will do great.” -OB to mother who got pregnant only 6 months after her cesarean.
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Really? I have to defend this on a Thoughtful Thursday? Just as the context of ending up on a regular day you can assume it’s a bad thing, when it’s on TT, you can assume good, right???
This is mine. I’d been seeing the CNM who was out of town for this visit about 20 into my pg. He’d also been the one to do my c/s after my CNM called him into my emergency situation. He asked my DH and I a couple questions, looked over my chart and said this. He ment it 100%. It was really encouraging to hear from him, as he’d done my c/s, too.
Maybe I should have included an exclamation point? He just doesn’t talk that way.
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The Deranged Housewife had this to say,
Mar 19, 2010 @ 5:13 am (Quote)
Finally, someone that acknowledges that ‘closer together’ is not necessarily a danger when VBACing. I forget where I read this, but one school of thought is that the majority of the healing time for the scar tissue happens weeks after the c/s and there is no need to wait 18-24 months like everyone says. I think they do that more as a way to hope you practice ‘family planning’ more than anything … grrr…
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The Deranged Housewife had this to say,
Mar 19, 2010 @ 5:22 am (Quote)
Found it – it’s from Bruce Flamm, M.D..
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I had a VBAC 15 months after my c/s. It most certainly can be done! Bravo to that doctor who believed in a woman’s body!
Funny thing is, though, I had a harder time finding a doctor who would let me VBAC 11 years after my c/s. It was just the way it was back in 1996 that women would VBAC. Things sure changed over the next 10 years, and definitely changed for the worse!
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See, I don’t like this one because I was told the same thing when I got pregnant 12 months after my first c-section, only to be told, “We don’t do VBACs” later on in my pregnancy.
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Wendy Reply:
March 18th, 2010 at 6:09 am Wendy(Quote)
Yikes! Did the same OB/midwife say both of these things? Did they do VBACs and then later fall under some VBAC “ban?”
The original comment in and of itself I think is awesome, provided it wasn’t part of a bait-and-switch ploy that I’ve heard of OBs using–for example, pretending to be supportive of natural childbirth and then pushing epis on a woman while she’s in labor.
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attached2mykids Reply:
February 6th, 2011 at 7:04 pm attached2mykids(Quote)
Nope, same OB. Don’t think they had any “VBAC Ban”. I think he just didn’t want to VBAC me. At 37 weeks, he did an internal exam and said, “You’re not dilated, and he’s nowhere near your pelvis. You need a c-section.”
Could’ve, would’ve, should’ve… This one WILL be different!
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