RE: VBAC help

[Sally Westbury]

One way that this was addressed in a hospital that I worked in was that the woman was assessed as having ‘special needs’ and was case loaded with 2 midwives who worked the Family Birthing Unit. This allowed her to birth with known midwives in the birthing unit environment even though she was outside the guidelines for the Birthing Unit.   This was great for the very motivated woman but unfortunately did nothing to change the status quo for other women. This was a great pity as she had done a huge amount of research and put a great submission to the hospital for the review of VBAC’s eligibility for access to the Family birthing Unit.