Thanks guys! Wow, you all are so supportive and wonderful! I love this DDC!
FWIW- I don't want a UBAC. I want a HBAC with a MW, but I can't have that here. As for the hospital as far as they are concerned, I want a VBAC without continuous EFM, which is like asking to move mountains apparently.
Victoria-
I am not naive enough to think that any OB here would support any UC birth, as a matter of fact I would be inclined to believe that this department would go so far as to try get CPS involved if a mom told them she intended to UC. I did mention the 2 c/s face slashings during the last year right? Did I mention the placenta in the laundry? This OB in charge VBACs is scary. As evidenced by the fact that he asked me how I intended to labor without the help of pitocin, and he was being serious and literal. An OB who can not fathom a woman dilating without the help of a drug is a dangerous man. And I do not think that you are correct in saying that he is concerened mainly with my welfare. In our first meeting, he told me at least 4times that I would have sign something drawn up by legal to release them of liability if I wanted to VBAC without continuous EFM, and then added the last time that "of course, my main concern is your welfare, and your baby's." I believe that if that were true it would have been said a lot sooner. It seemed very much like an after thought to save face.
Neither I, nor my husband(who actually works there) feel that it is a good place to give birth, so we are planning accordingly. But for a short time, it seemed as though I had found a really supportive CNM, and I thought it might be okay to go there. It would have been nice to not feel so backed into a corner.
FWIW- I don't want a UBAC. I want a HBAC with a MW, but I can't have that here. As for the hospital as far as they are concerned, I want a VBAC without continuous EFM, which is like asking to move mountains apparently.
Victoria-
I am not naive enough to think that any OB here would support any UC birth, as a matter of fact I would be inclined to believe that this department would go so far as to try get CPS involved if a mom told them she intended to UC. I did mention the 2 c/s face slashings during the last year right? Did I mention the placenta in the laundry? This OB in charge VBACs is scary. As evidenced by the fact that he asked me how I intended to labor without the help of pitocin, and he was being serious and literal. An OB who can not fathom a woman dilating without the help of a drug is a dangerous man. And I do not think that you are correct in saying that he is concerened mainly with my welfare. In our first meeting, he told me at least 4times that I would have sign something drawn up by legal to release them of liability if I wanted to VBAC without continuous EFM, and then added the last time that "of course, my main concern is your welfare, and your baby's." I believe that if that were true it would have been said a lot sooner. It seemed very much like an after thought to save face.
Neither I, nor my husband(who actually works there) feel that it is a good place to give birth, so we are planning accordingly. But for a short time, it seemed as though I had found a really supportive CNM, and I thought it might be okay to go there. It would have been nice to not feel so backed into a corner.
