I know Dani has.

Maybe she could help you out

#1 yoiur fiance can not make yo have a vaginal delivery if you dont want to, its your body YOU are teh one who is going to have to live with any consequences and the one who will be doing the work

#2 it is sfaer to have another cseciton but if its been more then a year its only like a 1% chance or less i beleive that anything negetive will happen from a vbac

#3 some doctors wont even offer to let you vbac after a c section, theres too much liability

#4 the biggest risk is uterin rupture, and that is very slight risk (more risky if you have had a c section in the last year or so or if you have a vertical internal incision)

good luck with whatever you decide and remember its YOUR body

~alicia~

I have recently done a TON of research on this topic.

It would first depend on why you originally had to have a C-section. In my state there is actually a law for hospitals: once a C-section, always a C-section, which makes it impossible to deliver safely in any hospital for v-Bac.

I had 2 vaginal deliveries, a c-section on my third due to placenta previa, a v-bac at my doctor's office, and then another C-section due to placenta previa. I am going to shoot for a Vbac2c this time. The reasons why I had the C-sections where not because I was incapable of delivery, since I had already proved that I could easily have a regular delivery 2 times before my first c-section.

Maybe you could give me a few more details about your first delivery so I can help you out a little more? What kind of incision did you receive and why did you have to have your C?

The risks of a c-section are more than a vbac, or even a vbac2c....if you are able to deliver vaginally, but that's hard to tell if you've never done it before. The biggest concern that I would have would be vbac with induction which has a higher percentage of uterine rupture. In the case of uterine rupture, there is only a .07 percent chance of rupture, and the study was not specific as to who had had successful previous deliveries and who was induced. So it would be even less of a chance of something going wrong for instance for a person like me who was not induce and had had successful deliveries before.

With a C-section, there are many different complications that could happen with any surgery, plus extra strain put on your uterus so that if you decided to have a third child you could be at risk for many things that you wouldn't have otherwise. Not to mention the recovery time is a real pain! And you don't want to have that with a toddler in tow.

If you want more info, I can get it for you, or if you have more specific questions, I will be happy to answer them.

I had a elective csection with my daughter and 13 mos later I had a VBAC with my son. everything went fine, no complications, altho im not sure which was more painful lol. Some doctors dont allow it so you would have to check with yours. Im pregnant again and plan to have another vaginal birth. One thing my doctor told me was they wouldnt do an induction, if I went past 41 weeks they would do another csection.

well harmony was due nov 15 but she wouldnt come, i got to 41 weeks they induced me with cervadil and pitocin, she still wouldnt come, i got to 4cm, they gave me an epidural which halted my labor, i started inching all over, and me and harmony's heart rates both fell so they decided to do a c-section, not up and down but across.... i could feel them drawing the incision line with a marker and at that point they knocked me out..... plus i was 5.2 and 102lbs, the baby was 8lbs, 9ounces, 22 inches long

I had almost the same situation. I went 8 days over and the pitocin didn't work. I wasn't contracting or anything, so I ended up with the section. I talked to my dr. about a vbac and he said that since my body didn't go into labor last time chances are I will never go into labor with the rest of my kids. Ava was 9 lb baby. He said that we'll do this: if I go into labor on my own around 37 weeks and the baby is small enough, we could try a vbac, but if not and this one is another big one, heck no! There's too much of a risk that the baby will be too big and I won't go into labor.

well im scared either way, i just hope they knock me out again cause i might not be able to deal with a c-section while im awake

Is a VBAC just a vaginal delivery?

VBAC is a Vaginal Birth After C-Section

Ohhhh! Yes, well, that makes sense.

c-sections while awake are AMAZING.. i was awake with my daughter and asleep with my son.. i wish i hadnt been asleep tho..

you dont feel anything.. they make sure of it.. they give you an epidural, instead of general anesthesia.. with general anesthesia you can feel everything until you go to sleep.. with the epi, ur numb numb numb lol. (they were pinching my skin with a thing that a really sharp end on it and i couldn't feel it..)
The recovery is a lot faster if u get up and walk around soon afterwards.

i can't imagine being knocked out and missing my baby's entrance into the world.

I'm on the fence whether I'd want to have another csection with my next baby or if I want to have a Vbac. I loved the fact that I was awake during my csection though.

my VBAC was amazing other than the big tear. its so different to get to feel your baby pop out and see and hold them right away without being flat on your back. i didnt feel like macy n i bonded the way liam n i did.

well the epiderul didnt work when I was in labor with my daughter, because when they were drawing the incision line I could feel it, I didnt want to be put to sleep I told the doctor before he put the mask over my face " I might not wake up" he said "yes you will" and thats all I remember until this baby was lying next to me and for awhile I doubted that she was mine cause she looks nothing liike me, so when her father made me get a paternity test to prove he was her father, i was relieved to kno that I was her mom, caca there was no question who her father was if she was mine... I was just paranoid, I think I also was scared that she wasnt mine because all the time i went to dr apt.s and was in labor, nobody told me that i was having a big baby

i do feel ripped off that i didn't have a vaginal birth, but i am so scared of trying for a vbac right now. i just feel like it hasn't been that long (17 months by the time she gets here) and i'm so afraid of a uterine rupture or something else going wrong. plus, i had such a traumatic labor and birth with finn that i'm looking forward to having a stress-free delivery this time.

maybe i'll consider it with my next baby which will be like 4 years down the road.

Are you able to try a VBAC after 2 c-sections?

I know I'm scared to death of something going wrong & everything splitting open inside of me or something. I feel ripped off also, I wasn't even close to being in labor when I had mine so I never got to feel a single contraction or anything, I wish I would have.

i don't know... i figured if it's far enough down the road it might be ok.

mominashoe posted above that she had 2 vag births, 1 c-sec, a vbac, 2nd c-sec, and she's going for another vbac. so it must be ok? or maybe it's because she didn't have 2 in a row? i haven't really even looked into it.