tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969030090272301067.post3378567556653187257..comments2024-02-18T02:54:01.550-08:00Comments on Natural Birth for Normal Women: Shifting the paradigm: VBAC should become the normPam C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07362772625429798131noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969030090272301067.post-7664998490054118102010-04-16T10:52:28.684-07:002010-04-16T10:52:28.684-07:00I cannot agree more with this post. The fact that ...I cannot agree more with this post. The fact that VBAC is not the automatic standard first option is just incomprehensible to me. There is something inherently wrong with presuming that women should have further surgery/ies without being given the support and opportunity to at least attempt vaginal delivery. It's infuriating and I'm so thankful for people like you who are railing against the system and offering support to those of us who WOULD like to buck the trend.<br />Nicola<br />VBAC hopeful for May 2010The Edghillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09233777413560296868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969030090272301067.post-24009316416464021662010-02-24T17:52:51.194-08:002010-02-24T17:52:51.194-08:00I just read your birth experience with having a VB...I just read your birth experience with having a VBAC on baby center and I have to say THANK YOU! I needed a c-section with DD because I never dilated after they induced me. I just found out that I am pregnant with #2 and your experience made me laugh and cry and created a hope a in me. I can do! I will dilate!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05153709701055059778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969030090272301067.post-75368924141143403472010-02-24T10:15:58.835-08:002010-02-24T10:15:58.835-08:00My mother-in-law had her first baby by c/s in 1980...My mother-in-law had her first baby by c/s in 1980. It was a classical incision and a classic FTP-type c/s - she showed up with prodromal labor that had been going on for days and insisted they keep her in the hospital (though they had sent her home twice already). The hospital was a very bad experience, and her refrain from the birth is "I never even dilated. If I hadn't had the c/s we both would have died."<br /><br />When she was expecting again in 1992, her doctor encouraged her to consider a VBAC. She wanted nothing to do with it and insisted on a scheduled RCS, but I do find it interesting how much the approach has changed. Again, she had a classical incision in 1980. Yet her doctor, in an area now renowned for elective c/s and hostility to VBAC and natural birth, was encouraging VBAC in 1992.<br /><br />I fully agree with you that those women who want a VBAC should be supported and have no difficulty finding a hospital and provider who will support that birth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com