VBAC - ending up in a C section?

I'm not sure you will find anyone who has had a scar rupture, it is extremely rare. I was told by our OB that they hadn't ever had one at CWH. (made me think maybe they were due one!)

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ETA:

Nicette Jukelevics, MA, ICCE, published in Mothering, Issue 123 wrote: Experts state that any laboring woman faces unpredictable complications - such as umbilical cord prolapse, acute fetal distress, or hemorrhage from a placental abruption - that might require an emergency cesarean. The odds of these complications are 2.7 percent, or 30 times higher than the risk of a uterine rupture with one prior low-horizontal uterine scar.

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all my mw said was you aren't allowed to push for long because of the risk but i guess OB will tell me more.. i still worry a bit about it but yes i have been assured it's rare.. but I'm still prob going for c..not sure though//

Thanks for all your advise and support -

I have had 2 natural births before C section due to breeched baby. I know my body can do it I just worried the uterus scar woud rupture but glad its very rare

I have already had a meeting with my ob cheeky baby so have discussed options - they are happy for me to VBAC but there are risks invovled (as stated) I also have a history of having big babies (9lb 5, 8lb 6 and 9lb 4) and also high risk for GD (had it last time).

Heres hoping all will go well though and my fears are just that - oh and it will not stop me from pushing and trying my hardest as I want this baby out LOL

i pushed for just over 2hrs with charli, had forceps and vonteuse but neither worked, most likely cos she had her head flexed....silly girl, she never looks where she's going!

I had been pushing for 2 hours when they decided to do the vontouse (well they did ask me, but I was just telling them to get the fricken thing out of me!!!!) I was in an incredible amount of pain between contractions but it was nothing to do with my scar, was the position he had got into, meant that his shoulder (I think it was shoulder) was digging into me. Mw had OB come and check me though just in case it was scar and that's when they decided to do vontouse, otherwise the mw reckons given another 30-60 mins I could have pushed him out myself. So it must depend on what else is going on as to how long they let you push for. I also laboured for 14 hours when they OB we saw at 36 weeks had said they don't let you go longer than 12. So I think a lot depends on your own mw and then on whichever OB happens to be working when you are actually in labour.

14 hours all up. Labour started 3pm (just as Oprah finished..lol) and then he was born at 4.44am. I arrived at the hospital at 8pm and was 3 stinking centimetres, I laboured till 11pm, then asked for an epidural cos the gas was doing jack, didn't get my epi till midnight and then mw checked me again and i was 4 stinking cm. Then a couple of hours later the epi was wearing off and I told her I needed to poo so she checked me (normally they check 4 hourly once the epi is in) and I was 10cm and he was all in the right position to come out so started pushing and she didn't top the epi up She said no more epi for me
I was pushing for 2 hours when the mw got the OB to check me, so was probably another 30 mins after that that he was born. They would have let me carry on pushing if I hadn't have been in pain between the contractions, cos he was quite happy and I was doing a good job at pushing but just couldn't cope with the pain in between, that was actually worse than the contractions. One push with the help of the vontouse and out popped his head, then I pushed the rest of him out. Mw reckoned if they hadn't intervened I would have pushed for 3 hours, unless he went into distress of course.

My labour with Joel was 10 hours start to finish and I was fully dialated after 7 hours. He was early and I wasn't engaged at all so thats why it took so long to push. Also I had to stay on the bed for close monitoring the whole time as I had been admitted with complications 10 days before he was born so if I had been able to stand and move around I probably wouldn't have had to push for so long either.

Yeah as others have said, chances of rupture is actually very low, almost seems like it's used as a scare tactic just to go for a c-section to be honest. I was really surprised when I found out the actual stats.

cuppatea wrote: Paws the way the OB explained it to me was that they have to tell you the worse case scenario because if they didn't and it happened you could imagine the fall out from that. Suppose it is not much different to them telling you you can get a blood clot and die from having the surgery It's not likely but they still have to inform you

Oh yeah I totally get that part....it's the people (non-professionals i should clarify) who look horrified when you say you want a VBAC and promptly tell you how you are going to rupture and die and horrible bloody death on the labour bed. or at least be lucky to escape with your life. You'd be surprised how many people said it to me when i said I'm trying for a VBAC.