One of my blog readers just gave birth to her third child. From reading this blog, she came up with the following list of requests for her vbac birth:
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1. I want to catch the baby myself. If I’m not able to, my husband should have the honor.
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2. I want a lotus birth—cord left intact until it falls off.
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3. I want my children to be involved if they are awake.
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4. I want the baby velcroed to my skin at all times.
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5. I want to have all the time in the world to see what gender my baby is.
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6. I’d like to have a video of the birth.
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7. I want a water birth
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8. I want to initiate breastfeeding when the baby and I are ready.�
� What she got:
Waterbirth of 8# baby girl, mother caught, cord slipped off shoulder by TBA, placenta/cord left intact for 5 hours then cut at mother’s request, video taken with camera on tripod, mother announced “it’s a girl”, only time baby taken from mother in the first 4 hours was when dad carried baby/placenta to the bed. Mother birthed her own placenta without any assistance in the water tub. 4 y.o. daughter present for 04:30 birth of her sister, 2 y.o. brother slept right through the birth in the parents’ bed. Baby was doing stepping/climbing/bobbing to find the nipple and breast feeding happened without any coaching. Moral of the story: Dream big, don’t just have a vbac, have a fabulous birth.
how beautiful! good for her.
I’m so happy for them!! Wonderful job, Mama! She is beautiful!
Thanks Gloria for showing me how important it is to dream big! It was the birth I’ve always wanted.
I had 3 unnecessary cesarean. For the first pregnancy i had a spontaneously labor at 40 weeks, but when i reached 10 cm my baby was sunny side and after a long labor i was offering a cesearian. After 5 years i got pregnant with my second son. At 41w2d, i was measured with low fluids and the doctors offered me induction or cesearian. I choosed a cesearian option…after 2 years with my 3th pregnancy i educated myself about the birth…i was doing yoga, walking every day, chiropractor adjustments…in the end at 41w4d i had a zero fluids at the 4 pockets…i was crying a lot…why this happen again to me…i always have an healthy pregnancies…the doctors said that induction could be dangerous for the baby and i could rupture…during the surgery, they saw baby’s hair and they mention that i had very thin scar. ..so i won’t be a good candidate for next vbac…also the told me that i had only a few spoons fluids…so the ultrasound wasn’t wrong…please advise me did you ever had something similar as my case…because we’d like to have one more child, but i will never go to the hospital environment…please help me with advice…i am in alberta, calgary. .Thank you
I would love to talk to you about your history and your birthing future. At the moment I am involved in approaching birth from a prenatal bonding perspective – I am finding it an enormously expanding and fertile territory, haha, just saying prenatal bonding = many resources and opportunities!!
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