A VBAC Success!
The story of
Grant's birth is one that will always stay near and dear to my heart. It
started when his beautiful mother, Ali, had an overwhelming hope for a better and
more peaceful birth than the one she experienced before.
Ali’s first birth had been a scheduled C-section
because her baby was in the breach position. At the time her doctor did discuss
turning the baby but Ali felt as if the doctor showed no confidence in the
success of attempting this. He also told Ali it would be incredibly painful. So
of course Ali assumed this was true, took his advice, and declined an attempt
at turning the baby. She also knew nothing of the many wonderfully effective,
natural techniques to help the baby turn, such as spinning babies.
Other common
misdiagnoses causing a huge number of unnecessary C-sections are Failure to
Progress and CPD, where a woman’s pelvis is thought to be to small to give
birth vaginally. In Ali’s case of the baby being breech she went on to have her
sweet baby girl via scheduled C-section. She's such a beautiful little girl and
has grown healthy and strong. However, Ali was left with a very hard recovery
physically and emotionally and a strong inkling that things could have been different.
She felt that
not only was the birth hard on her but that it could have been gentler for her
baby. Ali began to feel that this C-section might not have been truly medically
necessary. As the months passed during her next pregnancy she followed her
intuition and began to look into what complications really warrant intervention
and what it would take to have a vaginal birth after a C-section.
Ali wanted more
than anything to prove to herself against many people’s doubts that she could
in fact have a safe vaginal birth after a C-section. She wanted it, not only
for herself but also she longed to give this baby the peaceful entrance into
this world that he deserved.
