Calling womyn wanting to give BIRTH after having a caesarean!!!!!

[Aphrael]

This is for the womyn 'attempting a VBAC' and 'hoping for a VBAC' and thinking about 'trying a VBAC'!!!!

We need to change our thinking!!! We're not having a VBAC we're GIVING BIRTH!!!!!!!

We are NOT high risk, we are not RISKING our lives and the lives of our unborn babies, we're GIVING BIRTH!!!! The most natural thing in the world!!!

I'm GIVING BIRTH in February to a beautiful little girl and I CANT WAIT!!!!!

So say again, what are you doing?

[Salsa]

...but I am 'hoping for a VBAC'!
I dont consider myself high risk at all, but I am aware that I may have another c.sect. I`m not going to psych myself into forgetting thats a possible outcome. For both outcomes I need to spend these next few mths preparing myself mentally and physically.

All the best with you pregnancy and birth in Feb.

[krisp]

Hi Aphrael,
I hear what you are saying and I agree to a point. But having said that even though my DS was born via a CS I still gave birth AND my I gave birth to my DD via a VBAC. It is what it is - a birth by VBAC.

[AnyDream]

Aphrael, I hope this way of thinking really helps you to achieve the empowered vaginal birth experience that you're hoping for.

I agree with krisp though, I gave birth to my second DD via an empowered and healing maternally requested csection just as I gave birth to my first DD via a disempowered traumatic vaginal birth. I know it's not the intention of your post but your thread header implies that a Csection doesn't involve giving birth. I know some women feel like they've had the birthing experience torn from them after a csect - especially if it was unplanned and traumatic (and it sounds like maybe that's how you feel too) but IMO giving birth is giving birth, no matter how it happens.

[studentmum]

Hi Beck!

I HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!!!

I am so sick of hearing the Dr's and ob's come out with 'trial of... scar or labour' like we vbac'ers are not actually giving birth but doing something entirely different with our bodies that will probably result in a baby coming out somehow???

I don't think there's any intention here to take away cs mums rights to claim having given birth, I think there is more a sense of trying to reassure the world that if we want to vb after 1,2,3 or 4+ cs then there is nothing wrong with that and we have every right to want to give birth that way

I have given birth twice already, via cs, and I know there will be no different feelings towards my children based on whether they are cs or vbac babies however my brain and body want to experience birth differently this time and with the attitude of most health care professionals it is really a sturggle to claim that a vbac should be approached and dealt with just like any other 'birth'

I WILL BE VBA2C IN JAN!!!! YAY!!! oh, and GOOOOOO BECK!!!


Sarah

[Aphrael]

Hey Sarah,

I knew you'd get this post, you seem to be a bit more eloquent than myself lol.

I guess this post was more for my benefit than anyone else's as I still have to get my head around it all, hopefully my HypnoBirthing classes might make a difference next month.

Cheers,

Beck

[Indadhanu]

Can I just say... I'm trying to deal with a traumatic labour and emergency c/s... one of the hardest things is to accept that I did in fact give birth, even if it was by c/s. PLease remember that when you write posts like this, its really hard to read something that insinuates that a c/s isn't a birth. I don't know if this is what you meant but I just wanted to make you aware of it xx

[*MRS M*]

hi
i'm not preggers yet but hoping to be next year
i am hoping i can have vbac i have had 3c/s and i dont want to this time crossing fingers i can

sarah