Thanks so much for your story, it is important to hear about the other side and what can go wrong!!!Mainly it's stats you hear about and people tend to think that they won't be the one. It is an extremely tough decision to make VBAC or C-section, when as a woman I tend to feel a bit of a failure if I can't deliver naturally, but as my OB wife said (also a midwife) people tend to forget that naturallly woman died and babies died in childbirth and still do!!!!
I would love to attempt VBAC after 2 C-sections and one natural delivery, but am finding myslef with reservations after reading your story as OB wife said to me generally women don't get pregnant to birth their baby, they get pregnant because they want a baby. I have to agree I would never forgive myslef if I left hospital with out my baby, a damaged baby or myself damaged when it could have been avoided, I could leave hospital without beating myslef up over a C-section.
Thanks again for your story, I have around 8 weeks of thinking left and will be doing lots of it.
Just a little footnote, my OB would prefer I have a CS but if everything looks good beforehand and with full monitering, no induction or epidural and a labour that that's less than 8 hours is prepared to let me try. I find it a bit alarming that a lot of girls have talked about being induced after already having had a c-section and being allowed to labour for long periods of time. How does that happen????
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