"High Risk", second baby - natural birth possible?
I'm 13 weeks pregnant with my second baby.
My daughter was born in 2004 - basic rundown of my labour and birth:
- Gestational diabetes so classified as "high risk"
- Water began leaking at 36w2d - was admitted (public hosp) and given 12 hours for labour to start
- Labour didn't start - had no more than a mild backache - synotocin started
- Laboured 10 hours with gas, had epidural
- Emily delivered (with ventouse) another 8 hrs later. No episiotomy, just a small tear.
Although on paper it was a lot of intervention, we both came through it well and I am not at all disappointed in the way her birth went.
Next time however, since this is my last baby, I would like to do things with a little less intervention.
But since I had GD and PROM with her, and will probably have GD again, I am already classified as high risk and am I'm not quite sure where to start with a birth plan....what are my options if all this happens again? What sorts of things could be done differently? At this stage I'm seeing an OB delivering in a private hospital.
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