I'm writing this to get a feel of what other doctors are doing in other areas about VBACS. I'm a doula at a medium-sized city in the central US. I had a client call me and asked me if I could be her doula at a VBAC. Of course, I'm ready, willing and able, but then she says that it's a VBAC after two prior c-sections in which she never labored. It's kind of a long story, but she did consent to her first section after her OB, (not a cardiologist) discovered at one return visit that she had some slight tachycardia and that diagnosing the problem would have to wait after the baby was born. It turned out that her cardiac problem was benign, but she got pregnant again and was told that VBAC wasn't even an option in her area (she lives 3 hours from me in a rural area without any teaching schools or large hospitals nearby). But now, she is pregnant with her 3rd, and she desperately wants a VBAC despite the fact that she's had 2 c-sections, and that she's never labored before. She wasn't even given the option of TOL for her first.
She's called three different states and none of them will touch her with a ten foot pole. She's placing all her hopes on one doc in this area who says he'll do a VBAC after 2 sections. However, I do not have a lot of faith in this doctor for various reasons. I'm afraid that he's setting her up to fail - he says that he'll do the c-sections, but I'm afraid that she's going to get to the hospital on D-Day and he'll say that the hospital won't let him do a VBAC., and he knew this all along.
After writing that novel, I'll get to my point. In any of your places of employment, will the docs do a VBAC on a lady that has 2 prior c-sections who has never labored? Or even, if your hospital does them at all.
I am so curious about this and I appreciate all the responses. Thank you!:)
She's placing all her hopes on one doc in this area who says he'll do a VBAC after 2 sections. However, I do not have a lot of faith in this doctor for various reasons. I'm afraid that he's setting her up to fail - he says that he'll do the c-sections, but I'm afraid that she's going to get to the hospital on D-Day and he'll say that the hospital won't let him do a VBAC., and he knew this all along.
In any of your places of employment, will the docs do a VBAC on a lady that has 2 prior c-sections who has never labored? Or even, if your hospital does them at all.