Ban on VBAC at SE Mass. hospitals - Page 2

[Attached_Mom_to_7]

Kerlowyn--

My friend does'nt have a vehicle so it does make it harder on her for these reasons.

Also, she is very mainstream, prefers a hospital setting, but just doesn't want a section at all. She will probably just have to have one,even though its against her own will for it. They have already scheduled one for her like a month ago(she's due in Oct.!!! ) They wanted to make sure they got that over and done with I guess

[ragdoll]

we had to search far and wide to find a supportive birth team. i was 6months into the pregnany. the first doctor scared the crap out of me, i left crying and felt panicky and defeated......he said the birth wasn't about me or my needs, he said that a the surgery was easier (yeah, right) it was all about his fear of being sued should something go wrong. he wanted to schedule surgery for 38 weeks and if i should go into labor naturally before that then HE'D CONSIDER letting me labor. i ended up going to a hosp abt an hour from here to have my daughter, it was worth it. i really wanted to try for a home birth but the first time was so traumatizing and we live in the boonies......any way, if the doctors are so afraid perhaps they should find something better to do with their time. maybe a butcher or something. fear can be a powerful manipulator.

[ilovebeingamom]

The first OB I saw told me that by trying VBAC I would be playing "russion roulette" with my baby and my life. The next wouldn't let me go past 39 weeks, the baby couldn't weigh over a certain amount, etc. etc. They also said that VBAC at that hospital was very tentative, they were talking about banning it soon. I tried one more OB at a different hospital, who originally was supportive, but then at every visit, kept telling me all the dangers of rupture, and was I sure I still wanted to do this? He also wanted me to LABOR in the OPERATING room, just in case. The other mom I knew attempting VBAC with him, had a c/s after failure to progress after 7 c.m. Hmmm, it wouldn't have anything to do with the constant monitoring, inability to move around, and staring at the operating table, would it?

I finally said to hell with all of them and am planning my HBAC with a wonderful supportive midwife. It angers me so much that women are being put through this. It also angers me how many women don't even to seem to care. This is our body, our life, our baby, and we are just going to accept what ever someone in a white coat tells us?

I wonder why National Organization of Women doesn't get involved more, we need something, this is getting ridiculous. I am happy to hear that there are some places that are still supportive of VBAC's. I just wonder how much farther the pendulum will swing before it heads back to middle ground again.

[Mamid]

my ob threatened me with a section if my DS stayed breech. He "wasn't comfortable" with a vag breech birth even with a multipara (me!) because of the "breech study." Checking with nurses, he meant the Hannah Study which completely ruined any chances of women ever having a breech vaginally again. I tried to give him my copy of "A Thinking Woman's Guide" but he refused to even look at it. I even got permission from Henci to photocopy out the breech section in order to give it to him.

Thankfully, DS turned on his own.

[Paige, CPM]

Pro VBAC Rally

Hi all!

I must admit that I joined the commune because I am an opportunist (however I have looked around and look forward to getting to read more...).

What happened was I did an online search to find an article about our VBAC 'problem' here and a posting from this site came up. So, I just wanted to let everyone know that we are activly opposing this new policy by holding another pro VBAC rally.

It will be in front of Toby Hospital (in Wareham) on Wed June 30th at 6pm.

If you are interested in attending (kids, family, friends welcome too!) you can give me a call [phone], or email me and I can send you a flyer.

I am a local midwife and I am helping to organize the efforts to reverse this absurd policy. Take care, Paige

PS I am sorry if you are seeing this twice as I posted personally to some folks undefinedwho seemed local.

[Attached_Mom_to_7]

HI,
Unfortunately, my friends water has ruptured and she is now at 22 weeks and if all goes well, she'll be shipped off to Women & Infants in RI at 24 weeks.
She really doing well considering they found some infection may have caused this problem and also has tested positive for GBS. She's at home, was advised to stay in the hospital, did AMA, and now is at home and is doing everything they where doing in the hospital,fluids, temp. checks, antibiotics, bedrest with bathroom privilages.
She just had a 2nd. level scan in RI last week and come to find out, her boy weighs 1 pound! Needless to say, the doctor was quite happy with that result because that was one of the requirements needed for baby to survive besides gestational age.

[Mamid]

I remember where I was going about the Hannah Study...

Doctors are using ridiculous and threatening studies to get women to comply with their demands. The Hannah study in particular was set up to fail at vaginal breech births in order to prove that cesareans were safer.

So, women who could have had a safe vaginal breech birth - even multiparas - are threatened with sections if the baby doesn't turn. And if they do end up with a section, they don't realize that the way the ob literature is going nowadays will make them end up forever having sections with no chance of a vaginal birth ever again while under the care of obs or even just gps.

Nevermind the litigation factor.

Women have been set up to fail at birth. Get her to the hospital, shove fingers up her puss to see if she's within the "curve," strap her down with IVs, epidurals and monitoring belts and watch a woman perfectly capable of giving birth fail due to the stress of having to perform up to the expectations written in a text book. Diagnose her with a "deadly" disease (gbs) that newborns could contract and watch women run around scared to even attempt to give birth vaginally. After all, if her vagina is colonized with the disease, a simple cut would be safer. :

I'd start to rant now, but I'm just thankful at 18 I said no to a hysterotomy (mini-C) when I was miscarrying. If I hadn't, I don't think a midwife would take me now because even in Canada, the vbac rate is going down. And stuff like the hannah study is making it skyrocket.