Posted on 12/04/2004 6:48:51 PM PST by neverdem
Same here. My first was natural. My second was induced and I had an emergency section after he distressed. My third was to be VBAC but she went into distress after induction and I was sectioned again. My 4th was a scheduled section. Thank God I can't have any more. I do wonder about the rate of inductions leading to sections though.
For me, having a BABY was the beautiful part. Not the birth.
And then carry them back over it.
A newborn? Congrats!!! I miss having a newborn; my baby is almost 2!
I did all of that too. I exercised, ate right, took Lamaze and still had a section with with a 6 lb baby boy. My first son was easy at 4lbs. I had two more sections after the birth of my 2nd son and did everything right. Their size wasn't a factor either. They were all under 7 lbs. Pitocin made me contract horribly and my cervix became inflamed and I could not dialate. I blame the pitocin. I should have done it au naturale as I did with my firstborn. No meds of any kind. It was a lot easier that way.
If you are having your first, consider this: We have had 4 boys, each one had bradycardia (slowing of the heart rate during contractions) issues during the delivery, but on the first, we were stampeded into an emergency C (followed by amniotic pneumonia + 10 days in the NICU) when my wife was already at 10 cm and the doctor had only been on the scene for less than 3 minutes. The other three boys were big + full term perfect babies. (The girls were perfect with no bradycardia issues)
Try this mental exercise: If every delivery was a C [READ MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY] do you think that there would be more or less complications + morbidity than if every delivery was natural?
Gypsy had the sneak attack baby. Such a cutie!
I'm so pleased! Merry Chistmas to you! No more babies for me so I rejoice in my friends little ones!
As i write this, I am in my call room at my hospital where I am an anesthesiologist. We stopped doing VBAC as a result that it is an completely unnecessary risk. An elective repeat c-section has an incredibly small risk. The risk associated with VBAC is probably 10,000 to 100,000 times greater. If I can reduce your risk by 10,000 or 100,000, how could we suggest otherwise?
While I have presided ovefr numerous VBAC in the university setting, I could not imagine subjecting my child to this danger, and I question the parenting skill of any mother who might take this risk to be "self-fulfilled". I am of the opinion that if VBAC's continue, they will likely be in the tertiary setting of the university hospital, and I for one will not be sad to see them go.
As for the legal problems, I agree with the notion that lawyers are driving this, as an obstetcial disaster is often a cash cow for the plaintiff's bar -- just ask Mr. Edwards how much money he scammed in obstetrical litigation.
My wife's working on number four right now (third pregnancy). Her first doctor tried to have her have a cesaerean merely because she had twins and one of them was breech. We made the doctor turn the child once the first had come out rather than slit my wife.
Our best friends have just had number four (the second naturally). The first one was "taking too long". The second one was via the knife because the first one was, and our friends foreigner doctor kept them in the dark about any other option. Then they got a new ob/gyn, and haven't had to see the knife since.
I guess, though, I haven't a clue about what I am talking about here, since you, the expert on me, say so.
I don't get what this is about either?
One of my friends had her first baby as a C-section. Then she had an ectopic pregnancy.
She opted to have her son as a C-section because of the possible risks.
My mate is a class babe. She just told everyone..'Look folks, I'm just too posh to push!' :-)
It's not VBAC that's unsafe. It's the P*I*T*O*C*I*N. In the original article, the doctors admit that many women simply wait until late in labor to come in, and at that point they have no choice but to deliver the babies vaginally. I'm not attacking anyone who had a cesarian or repeat cesarians. But I think it's very ignorant to blame the complications on VBAC, when it's known that giving Pitocin to women who've had previous cesarians increases the risk of rupture. Pitocin induces unnaturally strong and painful contractions. Normally, the contractions gradually increase in strength and frequency and reach their climax right before the baby is being delivered. Again, this isn't a slam against women who've had cesarians for whatever reason so there's no need for anyone to get defensive. But banning vaginal birth altogether for women who've had past cesarians shows ignorance and fear of malpractice, not concern for women's health.
My mother had all seven of us by c-section and the doc finally said at the last one she had to stop. Her labor was mismanaged when I was born, so they did a c-section, and then they would never let her labor...
It must have been really common around 20 years ago because it seems like every other person my age I know was "from my mother's womb untimely ripped", as Shakespeare would put it.
My mom had a C-Section with me. I was very very very late.
You have a really horrible attitude towards women who have had C-sections?
When you personally shite a basketball without a sepository come back to me.
My mother did everything by the book. She still needed a C-Section. This may come as a surprise, but FReepers aren't all doctors or experts on everything, as much as some of them like to think they are.
Say WHAT?
What the heck are you talking about? I haven't made any comments about women who had cesaereans. I mentioned doctors and lawyers.
Let me restate myself again. The point of the original article is the problematic attitude of doctors who jump forward with the knife at the least medical provocation, no thanks to legal a**holes like John Edwards; and that many of these doctors give little or no counsel to the women they perform this surgery on as to their options.
So that makes me have a horrible attitude towards women who have cesaereans because I think there should be fewer such operations?
Just what rock did you crawl out from under to come up with such a preposterous insult?
Sneak attack? Preemie??
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