Am on cloud nine!!! Despite me having a 1.3L PPH with DS and him getting stuck LOT (thus theoretically putting me more at the 60 per cent odds of success end than the 80 per cent end) my wonderful wonderful consultant has agreed to write a letter to the MLU asking them to take me in for a VBAC in water! As she put it 'if you're happy to disregard my recommendation about continuous monitoring then I would encourage you to use everything there is at the MLU to have a successful birth'.
She also agreed with my dates not the scan so I have 13 days to go overdue before they pounce with an ELC and she said if I turned out to be 3cm dilated or not long to labour they'd give me more time too.
All I have to do to finalise it is to talk to the MLU head sister, but my consultant said she thinks she'll be delighted to have me there.
Any VBACers in Scotland wanting to labour in water, get thee to Forth Park Hospital's MLU in Kirkcaldy - and ask to see Dr Jennifer Boyd to be referred there!
Sorry for the random giddy post 
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Just been given consultant's go ahead for water VBAC in MLU!
Poppet45 · 04/08/2011 19:42
Happy for u poppet. I had vbac wb with ds3 in Edinburgh simpsons last year despite pph too with ds1. Twas amazing! Consultant not happy but got consultant mw support. Consultant onside for same again with ds4 in 2 months. Just had to write in my notes I'm aware of the risks of no cfm. I did bit of hypnotherapy too. Great experience - walked out with my wee boy 4 hours later in time to put the other two to bed
I am absolutely thrilled for you. Genuinely grinning like a loon. I know just how much this means to you.
Bloody brilliant.
Lollysticks forgot to add, the CLU in the Simpson still has birthing pools and baths. I was in one myself. If you have enough normal traces on the CFM you could try asking a mw if you could use pool or bath/shower for a while. Then just refuse to get out
Poppet you are inspiring me to try and get my MW on side next visit to try to overcome my issues with delivering in a MLU :-) am very glad you got what you wished for! Not sure if I said that on the other thread 
I did mean to if I didn't! If you see what I mean!
voodoo definitely try and find a community mw on your side, I've seen a few so far and they've varied from 'oh you'll need to go to the CLU' with no discussion to writing down the AIMs web address and telling me what I need to do to convince the consultant. The younger they are the more progressive I've found - well to a point - the really new ones can be a bit overwhelmed and tend to stick to the protocol. But ask around, and maybe see if they can point you towards the most lentil weavery professional they have You could ask if you could have an initial CFM trace when you arrive and then if things look okay, intermittant, with a promise that you'd go right back on CFM if things look wobbly. It's worth asking if you'll have someone in the room continuously monitoring the recording? If not I think regular dopplers - which need someone in there physically monitoring you not leaving it to a readout for someone to look at at a vague future time point - are worth asking about.
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