I don't have a midwife or doula assigned to me, because when I went to my first AN appointment through the midwifes at the hospital (they have a birth centre that I wanted to use run by a GPM), they said because of my history, I have to see the hospital OB for all AN appointments now. So I don't even get to see midwives at all according to them. My next visit is in about 2 weeks where I have to see the OB, and I am very scared as there were all these natural childbirth plans I had and wanted to go over them with a midwife in the birth centre, but because of my history it is unlikely that i can even go into the birth centre. I will have to go to the hospital delivery suite which I have been to once for a PROM scare and they are like set up to be medical intervention rooms, not suitable for my natural active labour that i wanted.
I am going to try and face it and see if I can get them to order my prior medical records from another state which I suppose they will do anyway. I can't explain it, but I get very scared of this and do things like cancel my appointments rather than have to face/talk about, or find out more of what happened in that surgery, I'm scared to know. I will have to try and find out how to go about that, as I realize it's necessary now. I was just hoping they wouldn't need to know and they would let me have my vaginal birth, I'm regretting ever talking about my pg history now because so much has been taken out of my hands, and if I hadn't told them about PE, etc I still would be just seeing midwives and going to the birth centre. I havne't even told them about the prior surgeries yet. I realize that is a totally selfish horrible thing to think as it's about my baby's health.
Thankyou Christie..it's reassuring that you and so many others on here have pulled off a VBAC and a c-section is very similiar surgery to laprotomy, so they must allow it.
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