VBAC and time limits?
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Topic: VBAC and time limits?
Posted By: Bky
Subject: VBAC and time limits?
Date Posted: 30 April 2012 at 10:30am
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I put this in the VBAC rules thread, but I guess maybe I ought to have made a new thread.
Time limits: I've heard that there will be some kind of time limit before they want to resection you and you might even get to negotiate it beforehand. True? I just feel like I might have a long active labour (my mother did with her 2nd and 3rd) though #1 isn't necessarily a good indication (9 hour labour, at hospital for 4.5 hours before section when I progressed from 4-5cm). Instrumental deliveries. Are they more common or likely? I talked to one MW before I picked the one I have now and she talked about a lot of VBACs she'd attended being instrumental deliveries. Maybe it was just in the context of uterine ruptures... Anyhow, I thought it was odd because she was also a homebirth midwife and that she wasn't epidural certified (I didn't even know that was a thing). I'm particularly concerned about the time limits because a lot of other things have to happen before an instrumental delivery does. The thought of being timed makes me feel particularly hopeless. Did anyone feel any pressure to hurry up? Or was a time limit something that came up with your OB consultation? ------------- 7/2010, 10/2012 and 1/2015 |
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Posted By: Candycane
Date Posted: 07 May 2012 at 10:20pm
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Hi there I see your from Chch, I tried for a vbac at woman's and I had no time limits as such placed upon me by obs, actually the ob that came in to delivery suite was encouraging me to keep going( after 13 hours). I have heard stories of 12 hour limits being giving but it probably depends on what ob you see
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Posted By: Bky
Date Posted: 08 May 2012 at 8:38am
Thanks for that! Still have a few weeks to go before discussing birth plans, but it's just another thing to worry about. ------------- 7/2010, 10/2012 and 1/2015 |
Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 08 May 2012 at 3:13pm
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the instrumental thing might just because of the reasons people had their first c sect for, ie large babies not progressing that sort of thing. I don't think that the rate of incidence would increase if the reasons for c sect were unrelated to ability to birth naturally (is there such a term lol?) ie i had one coz of placental abruption. Maybe for people who had trouble progressing? So I personally wouldn't worry too much about that unless your first baby was unable to fit or whatever (I don't know what reasons there are?).
Did ANY of that make sense lol. ------------- 
 Oct 11
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 08 May 2012 at 3:15pm
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Hey, have you have been told when you have to go into hospital as well? I want to be monitored, I am not fussed about that side of things but then was like, does that mean we have to go in right away or what? the midwife said established labour but last time i didnt go in til i was 7cm and that is SORT of what i was planning this time (unless i get chicken and want to go in to be strapped to the machines to check on babya lol). But surely if you are well into established labour like i was then how will *they* know how long you have been going? -------------
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Posted By: Bky
Date Posted: 08 May 2012 at 3:36pm
No that makes sense
There's no reason to expect problems this time, but then there wasn't before either. The instrumental delivery stuff was just some really odd commentary to get from a homebirth, non-epidural certified midwife. Looking back I think she may have been talking about scar ruptures being more common with instrumental deliveries, but the way she said it made it sound like VBAC made assisted delivery more likely. I haven't been told when I have to go in. I guess we haven't got to that point yet. Before I was told to go in when I felt like I wanted to, so I went in when I felt I might want a check or some gas and air. Of course when I went in I'd been calling my midwives every 1-2 hours for around 5-6 hours over regular, frequent contractions and was only 4cm when I was checked. Just worried about how it's going to go as I had a fair amount of pressure from the anesthetist to have an epidural last time. I didn't want to because I knew I'd stuck to the bed, but I ended up having to be stuck to the bed because of monitoring stuff, so I consented, but then had to get a spinal anyhow as other emergencies (not mine) came up. I think it's mainly as my midwife kept hitting the emergency call button so there were loads of people in my room. ------------- 7/2010, 10/2012 and 1/2015 |