Comments on: Shocking quotes regarding maternal choice to VBAC birth

By: admin

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:22:11 +0000

That is a very good question? If it was them would they want to do it? Allow it? Be okay with it? Are you on the ICAN yahoo group or in touch with the local Florida chapter?

By: Felina

Felina — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:15:19 +0000

I live in Key West FL and I am currently 10 weeks pregnant with my third child.
My first was a vaginal birth and my second was a c-section, my Dr. that did the c-section was very supportive and told me there was no reason i couldn’t try for a VBAC next time around.
Now, 2 years and 400 miles later I’m finding myself in a pickle, there are NO midwives and NO OB’s that support VBACs here plus the hospital has a ban on VBAC.
I am shocked and outraged that a Doctor or hospital thinks they can make me have unnecessary surgery, I am appalled at the flip attitude our society has about c-sections and I feel betrayed by everyone involved in making safe VBACs so hard to have.
I wonder if men had to be laid out naked, strapped to a table, numb from the armpits down, cut open and digging around inside of them while they were fully awake and aware of it all…would they consider that “routine”? Would they easily agree to it when there was NO MEDICAL REASON for it?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:32:50 +0000

Some good points are made here. I agree that it’s terrifying that some people aren’t concerned that a woman or anyone for that matter could have her body legally cut open against her will. And did whoever wrote that you can “just show up and refuse the c-section” not see that the hospital would get a court order? Great advice, there.

By: Thea

Thea — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:21:23 +0000

*sigh* is the best initial reply. I’m 35 weeks pregnant and facing similar issues with a nurse midwife who has done a little “change up” in policy since taking me on as a patient. If I don’t go into labor by “x” date, she will pass me along to a surgeon for a scheduled section. I am working on contingency plans and other options at the moment but the fact that my own personal health doesn’t usurp the ACOG “RECCOMENDATION” and that the attitude of care givers here is so universally given to fear (whether of litigation or rupture, etc) is amazing and not in a good way. It is disconcerting that her rights are so quickly overlooked and she, as a mother, is demonized in many ways.