Hey everyone,
In the nicest way possible, it's nice to see the reason others had csec was due to failure to progress, that was my reason for one too, so the chnaces for VBAC for me are quite promising. My Consultant has already told me I can try for one, that my chances of a natural birth are 80% only because, they don't know why I failed (hate that word) to progress last time, so there is a chance it could happen again.
I had an options appointment with the midwife too, who went through a birth plan with me, she said that, they can start doing sweeps from 37 weeks, and as long as baby is happy, and i'm ok, I can go up to 1 week over due.
They'll then give me a pessary and break my waters to try and start labour (if nothings happened) and then as a last resort start the oxytocin. I said I want to avoid induction as much as possible, so she went through lots of techniques to get baby in right position before and during labour.
My DD was breech and I had her turned but because of scar tissue I can't have another one, they are likely to scan me at 37 weeks to check this one isn't breech too.
If anyone is interested, she said the likely reason I didn't progress last time was because I was having a was back to back labor and so the head wasn't stimulating the cervix properly and most failure to progress c-section labors are for this reason x x
What was your situation? Like what did you get to and how long did it take. ( or did you not dilate at all ) I hate this failure to progress crap. It took me 37 hours to get to 4cm with 1st bub so if I had of been in hospital the would have classed me as failure to progress too but it just takes me a little while longer in the early stages. I arrived at the hospital at 4cm, 4cm to 10cm only took 4 hours both times. So my 1st labour was 41 hours, 2nd labour 22 hours.
There are people that genuinely fail to progress but if you're not running on 'their' time I think that it's often just something they say to get it all done with, Drs get paid more to perform a csection then to deliver a vaginal birth.
I hope you get your VBAC but if not just remember you have not 'failed' at all. Big
Thanks really appreciated, I was 10 days overdue, and was meant to have a sweep that day, I got up in the morning (Monday) and had a little gush of waters, so phoned the pregnancy unit as it wasn't very much and I wasn't sure if I needed or could have the sweep still.
First after insulting me and asking if i'd wet myself!! They told me to come in for a check, they examined me and couldn't find anything told me to wear a pad, and if it was waters I was likely to go into labour over the course of the day, but of not to return for another examination the next day, so I wore a pad and monitored definite wetness, each tiem I stood up.
Went in the next day at 11 days over, again nothing could be confirmed from examination but monitor was reading contractions, the consultant came to see me and asked if I was booked for induction I said yes Friday, he said it's Tuesday we might as well do it today.
Pessary given at 11am on the Tuesday, after 10hrs I was checked and was at 2.5cm, so was moved to labour suite to have waters broken, waters broken at 9pm, and was checked again through the night to still be at 2.5cm, Oxytocin I think was started around 11pm, turned up to the point of discomfort, turned back down to a manageable rate, stayed on the drip all night, to be examined again at 8am on the Wednesday and be told i'm still 2.5cm.
Therefore I was told that it's unlikely i'm going to get anywhere fast and I can wait a bit longer if I like or go to plan B the C sec.
In all honesty by this point i'd had enough, in the sense that I was overdue, spaced out from drugs, and had monitors and drips and whatever else coming out of me, and opted for plan B. However had I known labour can be stop start to begin with, and that if i'd left it I probably would've progressed naturally I would've waited it out at home, as although I was contracting I wasn't in pain with them until they started me on the Oxytocin.
This time I know what to expect and i'm not rushing into anything, I think because i'd said my waters are leaking they also had the whole 24hrs time limit for infection to get baby out and as I was over that time limit and not "progressing" they opted for C sec x x
I can feel hiccups on my left side and distinctive kicks on my right. A little by concerned but there's still time...
