VBAC or section????

[HeidiMum]

Hi i'm pregnant with my second child. My first ended up being an emergency section and i remember being told after that al my children would need to be born this way as my birth canal is too narrow, however when i saw my consultant this week and told him, he said that there was nothing in my notes to support that and i feel like he thinks i imagined it! My husband also remembers being told this but my consultant wants me to go for a VBAC. If i thought i could do a VBAC i swear i wud as i was gutted being told i cudnt do it naturally! Now im stuck with deciding whether i believe my memory and have the section or choose to believe that i imagined it and try to do it naturally! I am honestly stuck here! I cried for an hour after my appointment as my first really really was not a good experience and im terrified of it happening again! I also had pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome but these happened the minute i went into labour so i cant help worrying that the same will happen again. I know nobody can decide for me but does anybody have any advice as my husband just keeps saying its my choice and he'll go with whatever i choose which isnt helping!!! Thanks! :)

Hi

I too had to have an emergency section, my DS was to big also. They tried to say I didnt have to have one for my second birth, but as my DD was looking very big, they said c-section, and thank god they did because she was almost 10lb. My 3rd then had to be a section. I too remembered being told I was too small for a natural birth, but they dont write it down, why? I would fight it, if you arent happy, for the sake of your baby, even talk to someone else at the hospital. I would go for what would be safer, and what you would feel happier with.

That's a really tough one. My first was a c section and I was so pleased I went for a VBAC second time around- it was so different (despite being 9 14 and forceps - it was great, and recovery so much easier in my case).

However I suspect unless you can get to the bottom of what happened first time you might be nervous in labour (I would be - I'd be terrified it wouldn't happen if I'd been told it couldn't) and that in itself may go against a natural birth.

Can you go through what happened first time with a midwife (they do a debriefing thing here). I guess if a consultant really thinks you can do it (and your midwife) then you should be able to.

Good luck x

How can your consultant possibly know you can have a successful vaginal delivery? While it's good to make you feel confident enough to have a vbac, if that's what you want, it's harmful to force you into it. If you continue to feel you want an ecs they won't stop you.

Putting the other issue aside, The fact your PE came on when you went into labour first time round should be enough to persuade a consultant to give you a elcs. Honestly I'm flabbergasted they'd even consider a vbac in those circumstances. I got severe PE when
I went into labour and nearly died as did my baby, I'd be horrified if a consultant forced me into a vbac in a subsequent. Pregnancy.

I had an emergency cs with dc1, reason given at the time "baby too big to be delivered vaginally". Due to 1st emcs I was advised to go for elective cs with dc2 & dc3, dc3 weighed 5lb12 only. Got bloody minded wen I fell pregnant with dc4 & wanted to try for vbac, asked for a trial of labour. Consultant refused, but referred me to a consultant midwife who went through my notes & discovered my 1st cs was due to brow presentation, nothing to do with size of baby. I went on to have a successful vbac after 3 cs!
I would advise u ask what exactly was the reason for your 1st section & what's the chances of it happening again & take it from there.
All the best.