VBAC & edd

[MommytoTwo]

Did you go past your edd with your vbac baby? My mw says all her vbacs go over. I am sure I will and I am fully prepared but I cant help but have a teeny little hope that I'll go just a few days before. lol DD went to 42 weeks, so I have btdt.

(And yes I am full aware that 40w is an estimate, not an expiration date etc )

[MiamiMami]

DS was born 2 weeks 1 day past "due":

[sweetfeet]

He was born 3 days before his due date. However my dd was a 35 weeker so maybe that was "late" for me.

[witchbaby]

m was 3 days "late."

[GoodMomma]

Well I'm due in 3 days, so we'll see!

[JanetF]

Well it is just a birth so the same basic gestation lengths apply.

[MommytoTwo]

well that was my point - my mw said that ALL of her vbacs go over.

[ckhagen]

Both my failed induction, c/s baby and my non-induced, med free VBAC baby were born at 40w3d. My VBAC labor was 35 hours and my failed induction was 38 hours.

My mw also mentioned most of her VBACs going past EDD, which really helped me relax about the whole issue 2:

[melove]

He was born exactly four weeks early.

[yep_theyre_twins]

My baby boy was born a week and a half past my edd.

[chlorita]

my VBAC baby was born 2 weeks after my LMP due date and 1 week past my early US due date. Even now he doesn't get in a hurry for anything

[FuzzyOne]

my thought about vbac going over is, i think, a large portion of vbacs are second babies - meaning the c-section was a first birth. so, if your body has never experienced labor and birth with your first baby, when you attempt a vbac it will be like a first time birth. a lot of first births go over the due date and tend to be longer in duration than subsequent labor and deliveries.

[kim_nz]

My first Vbac was 2 days over and my 2nd (HBAC) was 10 days over by my date and 18 days by scan date.

[AugustineM]

YES. I was over 42 weeks with my VBAC. I believe that is what caused me to not have a successful vbac (subject to interventions after 42 weeks, etc.)

WIth my first I was at 40 weeks exactly -- went into labor naturally.

[TanyaS]

Well, there wasn't an option for both! So I selected that I went past due because that's what happened with my most recent HBAC. The baby was born 16 days after my EDD. My previous birth was a hopsital VBAC and she was born 4 days before her EDD.

[octanebeetle27]

I was due around the 5th or 6th of the month and she was born on the 5th!

[roadfamily6now]

I went into labor naturally with all 5 of my babies

#1 was a c-section for footling breech
#2, 3, 4, 5 were all VBAC and all born after my EDD

[Sagesgirl]

Esther was 11 days past my EDD (by LMP).

[MomOfImandZee]

just barely late -- 1 day! dd was 8 days late, so i was pleased i did not go that long again.

[nurnur]

7 days past ~ membranes ruptured but no labor, cntrx came and went each night and on day 10 past I gave birth. The universe was teaching me patience and still is! We named her Winter and it is so fitting as her pregnancy and birth was a time of going deep into my roots and tapping the innate strength that was there.