Oct 14

“Women Just Don’t Do VBACs…”

“Women just don’t do VBACs, so I don’t really have any stats available.” – OB, when asked about the OB’s VBAC success rates.

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Sarah had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 6:49 pm (Quote)

I think doc has been living under a rock for a couple of decades.

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Bee had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 6:51 pm (Quote)

well, probably the women in his ‘care’ don’t do VBACs because he’s an unsupportive, controlling and uneducated moron.

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Aron Reply:
October 15th, 2011 at 9:21 am Aron(Quote)

My thoughts precisely. Word for word.

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Rachel had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 6:55 pm (Quote)

If doc’s would take the time to properly stitch a uterus up after a c-section maybe more ladies would be doing/attempting vbac’s. Even when the doc’s suture up a uterus with a single layer of stitches the chances are pretty darn good that a mama can birth in the future without surgery. Doctors I think just scare a lot of women out of trying with comments like these.

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Ann S had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 7:30 pm (Quote)

The reason he, and many other doctors like him, don’t have any statistics is because they and/or the hospital they work in have focused so much on the possible risks, they have failed to see all the pluses. If I did that when thinking about driving a car, I would never leave my house.

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Melissa had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 7:35 pm (Quote)

“Women” just don’t do them?

Really? That’s your assessment of the problem?

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Jennifer had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 7:48 pm (Quote)

Sooooo… does that mean Men can do VBACs? (Not sure how that would work, but if women can’t do it, someone has to, right?…) Or does that mean my friends who recently VBAC’ed aren’t women? Huh.

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Kristy Reply:
October 14th, 2011 at 8:18 pm Kristy(Quote)

Maybe it is a female OB who believes she can’t catch the baby without breaking a nail… so VBACs have to be done by male OBs.

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silverhawkwarrior had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 8:27 pm (Quote)

Um . . . if nobody does VBACs, why do they have their own acronym?

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Kristin had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 8:35 pm (Quote)

When you say women, you mean YOU.
As in YOU don’t ‘do’ VBAC’s. Just be honest, doc. You may lose some patients, but it’s not gonna kill you.

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Jenni had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 8:58 pm (Quote)

This is mine.

I went to my 12-week prenatal appointment, and asked my OB about her VBAC stats. She looked at me very seriously, and said this. She went on to say I was welcome to try, but I’d be very limited during labor, and that I’d only be “allowed” to go to 40 weeks.
Lucky for me, we moved when I was 23 weeks pregnant, and I started seeing a fantastic group of Midwives. I went on to have an amazing VBAC, in a hospital, supported by all the midwives & Ob on-call. It was an amazing teaching hospital, and I felt very grateful to have been a part of helping so many future medical professionals see a safe, happy, healthy VBAC.
Turns out, women do, in fact, “do VBACs”.

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Becca Reply:
October 15th, 2011 at 8:00 am Becca(Quote)

You should write your ex-OB and tell her about your experience. Just so she knows that women can and do have VBACs. Who knows? Maybe she will reconsider the advice she gives her patients.

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Antonette Reply:
October 15th, 2011 at 3:36 pm Antonette(Quote)

I’d send it to the former OB and title it: Here’s a Statistic.

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Tee had this to say, Oct 14, 2011 @ 9:31 pm (Quote)

So women don’t “do” VBACS, huh? Maybe that’s because all of this doctor’s patients that he’s sliced open in the past have decided to avoid that by having a homebirth.

Just a thought!

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Sigrid had this to say, Oct 15, 2011 @ 5:45 am (Quote)

Hmm…. my little “victory” baby and I must be zombies then.

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Desiree had this to say, Oct 15, 2011 @ 10:07 am (Quote)

Well, I have had 2 VBACs, so either I am not a woman, or my kids are zombies.

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Robyn had this to say, Oct 15, 2011 @ 10:34 am (Quote)

Oh. Ok. Then I’ll just go find someone else who encourages it and will, therefore, have stats on it. Thanks for your time.

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Alyson Miers had this to say, Oct 15, 2011 @ 3:07 pm (Quote)

Let’s try this again, Doc!

“I don’t really have any patients who’ve sought VBACs, so any stats I gave you wouldn’t be very useful.”

That’s not even starting with what this doc may be doing to scare off VBAC moms.

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Jen had this to say, Oct 15, 2011 @ 3:14 pm (Quote)

Seriously? I mean, seriously?! I am fully convinced there are as many con-artist OB’s as there are conniving, scrupulous mechanics. But I won’t take that example any further, lest I offend the legitimate mechanics of the world…..

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Susan Peterson had this to say, Oct 15, 2011 @ 7:13 pm (Quote)

Hmm, I had 8 babies vaginally after my C section. Got so I almost forgot I had had one. Shoot, if you break your leg, you don’t spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair! When it heals, you walk. Same with a uterus.

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