Length of Delivery for VBAC? - Page 2

[melixxa]

Originally Posted by Electra375

was told that my labor might be as long as it was on the pitocin and that the pushing phase would be just as long as a first time mother since I did not have a proven birth canal..

Originally Posted by buddhasmomma

I have only had a csec, no vbac yet.

But my midwife said that women who didn't labor with their csec would be more like a first timer. And that if you dialated to say a 5, then had a csec, that sometimes the body gets to 5 with the vbac and stops or stalls there. But usually women who dialated fully with their csec, should have a vbac like a second vb.

So I wonder which it is? Is it whether one labored/dilated at all, or is it whether one got to the pushing stage? Whether the "proven birth canal" has been established? Does anyone know for sure?

Since I never got to push the first time - and that, at this point, is the 'great unknown' - I am really wondering if in terms of pushing at least I'll 'labor like a first-timer.'

[Electra375]

Your pushing phase will be that of a 1st timer, since you have never had a baby come through the birth canal. Of course, some first timers have babies out in 2 or 3 pushes and others only after hours, mine was 2 hours of pushing, I know a woman who her first birth was 5 hours of pushing.

The length of time it takes to dialate will likely be less if you dialated before, but then again if you dialated on pitocin, it will be as long or longer. I dialated on pit with my 1st in 12 hours (6 hard), then c/s, my vba2c was 14 hours to dialate (7 hard, but not as hard as on pit).

HTH -- in general a vbac should just go into as a first birth, b/c if it is a hb with no interventions it really is a first birth.

[Periwinkle]

I have read that a slow rate of cervival dilation increases the chances of uterine rupture and decreases the chances for successful VBAC.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q..._uids=11262462

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...t_uids=9357257

Has anyone had very slow labors during VBAC who had a successful vaginal birth?

[OnTheBrink]

My 1st birth was a cesarean with basically no labor. My second was 3.5 years later and a planned HBAC. I transferred to the hospital after 54 hours because of exhaustion and the fact that I was not dilating past 1cm even though the other "symptoms" of transition were present. At the hospital I was manually dilated to 4cm (ouch!). Nine hours later (after 2 hours of pushing) John was born. That was a 63 hour labor. Not something I want to repeat!

[Barcino]

I got to 10 cm with my son which ended up in C-section. I just came back from talking to a midwife about my upcoming VBAC (due Sept) and she said that my labor would be like a second timer... my pushing like a first timer since I never really pushed and the baby never desceded due to malpositioning.

At least one part should be faster right? My labor btw was pretty fast. I dialated in about 6-7 hours not bad for a first time mom.

[OnTheBrink]

sorry - repeat post

[Rach]

What if you got to a 5, but were manually stretched to be so?
My labor was rushed. Water broken to make me a 4, fetal scalp and internal monitor inserted and he manually made me a 5. Never got past that, because the baby went into distress and eventually my labor was stopped and I was filled back up with saline. :\

I'm okay with thinking I'll be a first timer because I know my body can do this.