Oh, so you mean you can’t handle the workload if all the beds are full?

Then treat it like any other birth, jerks.

Better to leave the birth support to someone capable of handling such things as NORMAL LABOR… you know like midwives. We’ll call you if we actually need you, but don’t wait up .

Good, go tend to one of those other patients and the VBAC is less likely go “go wrong.”

“Let’s see: the job of L&D nurses is to tend to laboring women. So what you’re saying is that no one in L&D wants to do his or her job? Would you mind putting that in writing for me? Thanks ever so much!”

I don’t want you waiting around either, doc. Go home. Better still, I will.

Translation: Your experience isn’t important, and neither are you. We’d rather just section you again and get back to managing the “real” births.

No one wants to sit around and wait for a VBAC labor to go “right” either, huh?

Your vote of confidence is underwhelming.

‘Bye. I’m off to see the midwife.

What he means is
“no one really wants to wait around for a VBAC labor to go wrong; we could section so many women in that amount of time.”

hhhmmmmm, funny, I waited through 60 hours of labour before they wore me down and I agreed to a C/s. I would quite gladly wait through 60 hours of labour again to avoid surgery but this time I’ll be waiting at home with a midwife who assures me she has nothing better to do and will bring a novel or two she has been meaning to read for ages. I am so thankful I still have that option.