Prem C-sect.. then full term VBAC???

[*mitch*]

Hi guys...

just wondering if anyone had had a sucessful VBAC after a pren c-sect...

Alexa was born at 32+4 weeks & I never had a big belly...

Just wondering if for #2 if I was to go full term & try for a VBAC... would the chance or rupturing be higher cause of the extra uterus stretching with going full term... IYKWIM..

Any opinions or directions of where to head for info would be apreciated...

[BellyBelly]

Not at all! I just posted a stack of studies about the safety of twin VBAC HERE.

Your scar is strong!

[*mitch*]

Yay thanks kelly... i hoped you would see this... thanks sweetie

So there wouldnt really be any extra strain on the uterus going full term & it not having been fully stretched the first time... so to speak!!!

[BellyBelly]

Not at all - no matter how much your last baby has grown, your uterus is strong and muscular and designed to stretch. I'd be grabbing some books - Silent Knife and The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth Also the Pink Kit has some great VBAC stuff too

[Julie Doula]

Hi Mitch,

Birthrites has a great PDF booklet on VBAC that you can download free.

All the best for your VBAC.

[~Flossie~]

all the best for your VBAC!!

[*mitch*]

Thanks heaps for the info guys... We are not yet TTC... but I want to be armed with all the info I can get

[paradise lost]

Hi Mitch, i just wanted to point out that logically no-one's scar has been stretched before their VBAC, because the cut heals when the uterus is back much closer to normal size - your uterus is half the full-term size only hours after birth! Mine was back at my bellybutton when DD was 45 minutes old, back in my pelvis (hard to feel) by day 4 or so. It takes 6 weeks for a c-sect to heal so logically the scar tissue is forming by day 5 or so, by which time the actual area of the cut and scar would be MUCH smaller than it was at the moment of surgery.

Does that make sense? Just what i thought when i read your query.

Bec

[*mitch*]

Thanks hoobley.... I had no idea the uterus retracted that quickly!!!

My concern really is more to do with the uterus stretching than my actual scar IYKWIM...
I just wonder if the uterus stretching to fullterm will make much of a difference because I had a really small belly with Alexa...

Thanks guys for all the info... I will get to reading it at come stage soon (I hope LOL)...

Will have to have a hunt for those books over here too Kelly... (I still have my copy of new active birth too, only got half way troug reading it before alexa decided to arrive LOL, might get to read the whole thing nxt time round!!!)

[paradise lost]

Your uterus is MADE to stretch You'll be fine. If it's any comfort i have a friend who had uterine surgery (to correct a birth defect) age 15 (before she'd had ANY babies) and even though her scars were higher up than a c-section would ever be she just carried a baby boy full-term and pushed him out herself. They watched her carefully but she had no probs.

Best of luck.

[casey]

Your body is perfect, and it will do a wonderful job of accomodating your growing baby.