i'm going for vbac. up until now 26wks, i've been planning a c section, i didnt think i could be swayed any different i thought, if they're going to have me strapped to the bed dont do this, you cant do that, i thought what the hell, i'll have a c section and control it my way as much as i can.
anyways.
my hospital have a vbac clinic where you can go in and discuss everything, she had all my previous notes there its run my a leading mw (my hosp has mw led dept, and consultant led dept, high and low risk mums) so she went through my last labour talked in detail why the c section happened, i was really impressed by her passion and the trusts passion in getting women to birth naturally.
i said my ideal birth would be the same as last time started, water birth and freewill, go with the flow with painkillers, start at the the bottome and work up if i needed to.
she said right lets get on with making that happen, my jaw nearly dropped lol
she had sheets that were already planned out for her to fill in, it said vbac water birth. and its for mw's to go buy it had allergies etc on there etc.
she said when i arrive i'll have blood taken from a canula and have roughly an hour monitoring to get a base rate to go buy. when i'm ready and want to go in the water they take the canula out (site of infection reasons).
and i can basically do as i please, they may listen in more than normal but i probably wouldnt notice and they are this yr getting some kind of mobile hb listening monitors that can be used in water as well.
when she put the risks of c-section and natural risks in front of me there was a huge difference, she said that i would be a great candidate as i birthed my 1st baby fine i did hurt my tailbone but that was my positioning. and i shoud deliver in a nice time and there's no reason why i cant have waterbirth.
she even said they do induce vbacs now as well, although i dont think i'll need that.
so i'm now loading up on hypnobirthing, i'll have aromatherapy oils like last time, they as a matter of course let the cord finish its job before suting it as a matter of course now, she even had info on that aswell.
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