Hello (also posted in third tri)
I wondered if you ladies could help me (this may be a little long). My 1st labour and delivery 4 1/2 years ago was very long (3 days) from waters breaking to eventually having an EMCS. I lost a lot of blood, had to have 2 blood transfusions, baby didn't breath to begin with and was jaundice for quite a few days following. We were in for a week after she was born altogether. They told me nothing at the time about why things had gone wrong or what was happening and why. Later on my discharge notes I read that baby had been back to back and I had failure to progress as my reason for needing an EMCS (I don't think I got past 2cm).
I was told at the beginning of this pregnancy that I would get to see a consultant to discuss all that had happened before and what I could expect this time around. As it turns out I had an appointment with a hospital midwife not a consultant last week. I stated that I would like to try for a VBAC and she was pleased - that was all she really wanted to talk to me about, it was almost as if she was pushing the VBAC even though I had already said that I wanted one. We didn't really talk about my previous labour although she did ask why it was a EMCS and I said it just said failure to progress then asked if this was because baby was back to back. She didn't give me a straight answer but said that quite often failure to progress once meant it was more likely to happen again!! That did not give me much confidence about a VBAC that she was also trying to push.
What I want to ask you all is - did any of you have a successful VBAC after a FTP first labour and EMCS (Or back to back baby and EMCS first labour) looking to see if this is definitely something I should try or not.
I wondered if you ladies could help me (this may be a little long). My 1st labour and delivery 4 1/2 years ago was very long (3 days) from waters breaking to eventually having an EMCS. I lost a lot of blood, had to have 2 blood transfusions, baby didn't breath to begin with and was jaundice for quite a few days following. We were in for a week after she was born altogether. They told me nothing at the time about why things had gone wrong or what was happening and why. Later on my discharge notes I read that baby had been back to back and I had failure to progress as my reason for needing an EMCS (I don't think I got past 2cm).
I was told at the beginning of this pregnancy that I would get to see a consultant to discuss all that had happened before and what I could expect this time around. As it turns out I had an appointment with a hospital midwife not a consultant last week. I stated that I would like to try for a VBAC and she was pleased - that was all she really wanted to talk to me about, it was almost as if she was pushing the VBAC even though I had already said that I wanted one. We didn't really talk about my previous labour although she did ask why it was a EMCS and I said it just said failure to progress then asked if this was because baby was back to back. She didn't give me a straight answer but said that quite often failure to progress once meant it was more likely to happen again!! That did not give me much confidence about a VBAC that she was also trying to push.
What I want to ask you all is - did any of you have a successful VBAC after a FTP first labour and EMCS (Or back to back baby and EMCS first labour) looking to see if this is definitely something I should try or not.
