Encourage her to find a new OB! If she chooses to stay with him, then she is choosing his opinions and they are obviously contradictory to what she wants. He sounds ignorant of the reality of vbacs. I am sure in Melbourne, there would be some supportive obs. Ob's like that make me so mad, but women continue to stay in their "care", thinking they will have the birth they want, even though the ob has made it clear that they are not supportive. I did it too. I stayed with my ob that was a wanka and kept telling me I was going to have a c-sec??!!
Sorry it has taken me a while to answer this Kirsten. I can't find those links anywhere, but here are some more. http://www.vbac.com/index.html http://www.vbac.org.uk/ http://www.ican-online.org/ You should be able to get heaps of info from those sites. A great site to get membership to is www.birthlove.com you really learn from the women and their stories. It is a great resource. It is great that you will be going through her pregnancy with her, will you be supporting at the birth and postnatally? Love Abby >>We attended her first obstetrician's appointment today, and he was going over some results from a pelvis scan she had done. He said that one of the upper (?) measurements was a little low/narrow, but it was no real cause for concern, because the results would need to be all quite abnormal to suggest complications with descent. However! Ahh the however! He went on to say that with anaesthetics being so safe these days, and the heightened risk associated with ruputre of the scar (trial of scar?) he would recommend that she go straight for the cs. At this point he thought it opportune to mention the deaths of 2 babies born this year at a local hospital during VBACs!! I kid you not!! He gives her a 60% chance of a successful (!!?) birth if VBAC, saying that a woman who had undergone the original cs due to breech position would have a higher chance of success than she would, as her complication was related to descent. All sounded very logical. And that is the scary thing to me!! So many women (me included I think, before I had started my course) would just say 'oh, yes, of course, you know best'. That just limits them so much. At the end of the day, he may be quite right, but at least give her the opportunity or means to investigate the options. Don't suggest her baby will die if she doesn't get a cs! Sorry - getting angry!! :) > > As soon as we were out of there I asked her how she felt about what he had told her, and she was quite concerned that he didn't offer her any support or guidance re the VBAC at all, and was quite distressed that he brought up the deaths of the 2 little babies earlier this year. I offered to get on here and get her some information, for which she was grateful. Just links to good sites would be great - Abby, I think you posted some when I asked my first VBAC question a couple of months ago. Anything at all would be very much appreciated. > > Many, many thanks, > > Kirsten > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
