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My first baby was breech and hence I had a c-section. I am now faced with the same decision to vbac or not. I'm leaning toward another c-section as I coped really well and the recovery was not as difficult as I was prepared for. I was walking the halls 36hrs after delivery and then had no help at home. You should consider how you handled the c-section as I haven't heard any great stories about a natural birth anyway. Good luck!
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I Vbac'd My second pregnancy and she was 8 lbs 11 oz 22 inchs long. It only took three pushes! It was AMAZING!!! VBAC's are the way to go!!
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I really wanted to do a VBAC. Then I did research into it. This is something that I feel you should really do research into to weight the pros and cons for yourself before dieiding to do it or not to do it. The chances of having a uterine rupture are 1% or 1 out of every 100 women. To me that is a very high number, to other's it might not seem like it but to me it did. It also says that if you have had a previous succesful v____al birth then your shances of a sucesful VBAC are higher. But if you haven't then the chances of a succesfull VBAC decrease. In uterine rupture the baby goes out of the uterus into your abdominal cavity. Once that happens they have less then 20 minutes to operate to get the baby out to save it and you. So they will not even perform a VBAC unless you deliver at a hospital that has an anesthesioligist there all the time. One that is just on call is not good enough becuase it would take them more then 20 minutes just to get there, then your baby would be dead and you might be also. This is a very very serious thing. One that has a lot of danger to it. Read about it before just deciding to do it. Some people will be able to and I'm not trying to disswade(sp) you, but you really need to know about it first. Heck, if you aren't giving birth at a hospital that has an anestesioligist at it all the time you won't even be able to try anyways. So you need to discuss this with your doctor also. I'll go try to find that website I got the info from. It gives you both sides of the argument. Both the pros and the cons. So it isn't a one-sided thing trying to persuade you to do it or not. It just gives you the facts. They weren't worth it to me, but they might be to someone else. Just please, know the facts first. As to Jill, not to be mean, but your chances of having a uterine rupture are so much higher if you have had a c-section, to use that argument is silly. And this is something that will risk the life of both the woman and the child, don't try to talk them into doing something that risky by saying a uterine rupture can happen regardless. Chances of something going wrong in a VBAC are 1 in 100. Chances of something going wrong in a c-section are 1 in 2500. Now you tell me which odds you would pick when it comes to the life of you and your child?
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O.K. this is the website if you are interested in looking at it. Gives you both the pros and the cons so you can decide for yourself. Not just go for it by hearing good stories or go against it by hearing bad ones. This way you can decide for yourself by the facts. It is www.trialmd.us/VBACpage1.htm ....just remember to remove any (-) amrks that show up, they shouldn't be there.
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Misty, my comment was directed at the people who make it sound like nothing bad will happen to you if you always have repeat cesareans. I know the risks are slight, but they are risks all the same. And you can't depend on the odds that get quoted about problems stemming from c-sections. I had to be admitted to the hospital when my son was less than one month old because I had 6 different infections caused by the catheter that was given to me during my section. According to my medical charts, it hasn't been linked to the c-section. My OB/GYN did connect them, but she wasn't the one treating me in the hospital. So don't trust the statistics that you read. I know from my own experience that it happens more than most people know.
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