New coalition policy of no ELCS?

[mumtojohn]

Apologies if I am behind the times on this, but I am due with DC2 in November (have been gunning for an ELCS after an EMCS first time round and a horrendous experience) and heard from a girl at work (also due then) that the new govt has decided that there will be no more ELCS from June 30th this year (bar extreme circs)!

This strikes me as very likely not true. My consultant didnlt mention it (although she said she wouldn't book a c-section until 36 weeks) and there is no mention of it anywhere that I can find online.

I'm aware that hospitals strongly encourage VBAC and have done all my research etc (which I put to the consultant at 20 weeks - she said she thought I would probably get an ELCS and I had good grounds).

Has anyone found recently that there seems to be more of a clamp down now than before? Or has anyone else heard this rumour?

Doesn't sound right to me. I had an ELCS with 1st baby last year, and I don't know how they would have proposed to get her out were it not for ELCS!

Will be interested to hear what others have to say and if anyone knows anything for sure. I would definitely have ELCS next time round too, even if I have to go private, but had hoped that after one CS, I would be offered an ELCS on NHS next time round too?

What??? Can't be right.
And did you mean June next year (ie from 2011) or June this year (ie from now)?

This year.

As I said, heard this from a girl at work whose mate was told it by a hospital.

I suspect it is a combo of Chinese whispers and a hospital consultant/midwife spinning a yarn (from what I have seen so far, the NHS are very keen to reco VBAC in the first instance, almost regardless of your circumstances).

I wonder though if there is some 'directive' to the NHS about reducing the number of ELCS that aren't strictly neccessary, that has come since the coalition came in.

I very much hope not as as I thought my ELCS was more or less in the bag....

My ELCS is also in the bag - or so I thought anyway. I certainly haven't heard anything about this and it wasn't mentioned at my consultant appointment. I actually thought there was some new advice from the WHO saying something about it being unnecessary to further reduce the number of c sections, but I could be wrong.

This is what I was referring to - found it on another thread. Might be useful to know about if your hospital tries to reverse their decision
www.bbc.co.uk/news/10448034

Thanks Pixiecake. I think we are safe...