Shall I try for a VBAC? 🤪

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37+3 with DC2.

My first was an EMCS after induction due to footling presentation. I only made it to 1.5cm and even then I think the midwife was exaggerating to make me feel better.

I have GDM so would have to be induced again, which I really don't want because it was hellish and I was asleep deprived for 3 days.

Furthermore, I don't like the statistics around VBAC successes and interventions, so I've been pretty adamant that I want an ELCS, and that's booked in for 12 days' time.

Except today I had Braxton Hicks for the first time in my life and that's kind of thrown me. I don't think I'd seriously considered the possibility of going into labour before my section date and now I'm feeling bizarrely torn about what to do if it happens for real.

I also have a 2 year old to think about.

So:
YABU - just get your CS, don't mess around
YANBU - try for a VBAC, What's the worst that can happen?

I had VBAC after a C-Section, for me the VBAC was so much better. I had next to no recovery time which I really needed as I had a toddler at home too. I know it's nor always so straightforward for everyone but I personally would always avoid a C-Section, the recovery was so much more difficult for me.

This.
You no longer only have a newborn but an older child that you will need to be bending down to, picking up, playing with, being jumped on.

I’d say just see how you get on. If you go into labour you can still opt for a c section if your labour doesn’t progress as it should, and if it does then it’s not going to be a problem so might as well go for VBAC.

I will say that my recovery from my elective c section was much smoother than from my emergency as rather than labouring for 48 hours and being on pitocin for 12 hours I was in and out. I left it until 39 weeks and would have seen how it went if I’d gone into labour before.

I’d not agree to be induced again, given the experience I had.

VBAC where you spontaneously go into labour a v different prospect of an induction IMO.

I had VBAC and positive experience. I had to do on the drip as waters broke and did not fully progress but it was 4h after the drip DD was born rather than the long affair that led up to the c section the first time. Advantage obviously driving picking up toddler etc. Good luck and hope it all goes smoothly 😊

I had a VBAC after a planned breech caesarean with baby number one. Was much better and was a positive experience. Was advised it would be better to go into labour naturally so I did everything I could to get baby here, lots of things advised by my midwife and had 2 sweeps from 37 weeks also. I went through a stage of being really anxious about a natural birth but as my midwife said if you go into labour see how you get on

I did the opposite… planned c section (twins) with a 2 year year old at home who I had by vaginal birth. Take the C section… I was doing normal toddler things within the week. Just my experience, but I found a planned c section very easy to manage and recovery time quicker (I had lots of stitches with my VB).