Comments on: A VBAC Story

By: Lara

Lara — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:17:59 +0000

To all you confused Women out there, the ones who don’t know what to think or believe about your own bodies, please listen to this Wise Woman. I too had placed my faith and perceptions about my abilities in the hands of doctors… much to my own frustration and detriment. Rupture is very nearly a myth, a doctor’s tale… like a wive’s tale, only more dangerous. Designed to frighten women much like mother’s have frightened their children into obedience with stories about the bogey man, what happens when you pick your nose, and that if you sit too close to the t.v…. Instead doctor’s employ distraction tactics, withhold facts, and tell gruesome, unfounded stories of “rupturing” uteruses and the evils of homebirth intended to terrify their patients into quiescence and into their pocket-books. Hey, they have to pay for that Jag and their golf club membership somehow, right? We’re told over and over by the media ( isn’t the Birth Channel inspiring?) and our families, and society in our “advanced” culture, here in the U.S., to Believe!! in The Church of Medicine. Silly us, simple-minded women couldn’t possibly know better than a Man in a hospital, with a stethoscope and everything, what our female bodies are capable of. We NEED him to rescue us from our folly, and from our apparent physical incapability… to let Nature do what Nature does outside of every hospital, all day, every day, all around the globe, in every society, under every bush, in caves, in huts, in grass fields… and has done for millenia. I guess somebody needs to tell Nature to back off, because she is obviously in the dark. Someone needs to tell Nature to stop interfering. And obstetricians and the AMA are the ones to do it. Oh yeah, there’s just one thing… I’m one of millions of women who’ve proved them WRONG! The doctor that “rescued” me from my fallacy by signing his name on my body in blood and a low transverse scar wasn’t counting on the fact that I didn’t care about his car, or his house. That I had no intention of padding his bank account with the future c-sections he was envisioning I would provide him with when he made the first knife stroke. I guess he overlooked the fact that I have a brain, and that Google is pretty easy to maneuver. It helped a little… MIDWIVES helped a LOT! 2 VBAC’s later and preparing for my third, his delusion of deluding me has only strengthened my own resolution to propagate the truth about what real birth is, and what women are capable of. Thank you Maryn, for standing in the gap for us, and your wisdom, and for supporting our generation’s Women’s Liberation Movement.

By: Tory

Tory — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:43:40 +0000

Sooo… what are our options in AZ? I’m nervous about a rupture so I feel safe in the hospital, but I really want a VBAC. I’m also nervous that it won’t turn out the way I want. I’m set up to deliver at a hospital in Phoenix that does VBACs with a midwife group that has a high VBAC rate, however, I’m disappointed that there are no birthing tubs at the hospital. It just doesn’t seem conducive to encourage women to birth naturally. At my last appt my midwife told me to keep my options open and that I should be open to an epidural. And here I thought that getting an epidural was a big part of the reason I had a c-section the first time. So, what are my options? Any good hospitals in AZ that do VBACs? I’m 30 minutes from the closest hospital, so home birthing really doesn’t seem like a safe option to me. Thanks for any help.

By: Tory

Tory — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:43:00 +0000