VBAC SUPPORT

Hi Kiewiet.

This is sooooo amazing - glad everything going well for you. Hope you have the VBAC hun....


It gives us all hope and especially me being in PE - to know that there are docs who support this.

Im not preganant yet - but when im ready i would also love to have a VBAC.

Please keep us updated.

Mwah

Hi everyone!

Just thought I'd give an update and share all the positivity!

Had my 31wk check-up this week (we live 180km from gynae, so we stretch times between visits). Renier was breech last at 27wks, but has turned head down and regardless I am still just as comfortable although the kicks often hurt! Apart from my growing belly I don't have ANY pregnancy simptoms and haven't had any since morning sickness stopped! Docter estimated him @ 1.8kg, but he said he's pretty sure that's an over estimate. Didn't tell him last time that I'm doing hypnobirthing, and when I told him now his responce was "Oh, so it'll be a painfree birth then!". I said that I'll certainly hope for it to go that well as the epidural made a muscle spasm in my back last time. (For anyone who can't remember or who hasn't read that far back, I had an emergency c-section last time after induction failed at 40wks. Also had a terrible pregnancy and the wound got infected afterwards and landed me back in hospital for 3 days. I had the same gynae then and my theory is that the shock of the pregnancy and the stress coming with it was all too much for my system. Not blaming anyone for it turning out like that! I feared having a c-section back then anyway and I think with things ending up like it did it was all too much for me!)
Seeing our GP @ 34wks and then I'll see my gynae again @ 37wks when he'll decide if I'll get a trial of labor. I'm sure everything will be fine! Renier is lying posterior, but he said that it'll depend on if he drops down to engage for me to have a trail of labor or not. He said 80% of women still have normal birth when baby is lying posterior.

I went to take a tour of the labor ward to refresh my memory and had the most lovely chat with one of the nurses! She said that things changed a bit since I had my girl in Jan '10 and that they allow skin on skin contact and nursing the baby immediately even if you have a c-section and they don't take baby away like they used to. Dad stays with them until you come out of theater. If you have a normal birth, then baby also stays with baby until you washed up. After leaving the hospital I really felt so positive and I know everything will be fine this time! I'm as prepared as I possibly can be for my VBAC and I'm assured that my gynae and the nursing staff will be on my side for me to have this experience be a good one! My husband was also not keen on me trying to have a normal birth, but after I did the hypnobirthing course and he's seen me being confident and fearless he hasn't objected either.

I'm with Dr Potgieter at St Georges Hospital in PE.

Hi, my old gynae is at Sandton medi and won't be able to assist with a birth at genesis. I also thought dr Maasdorp was very nice. I suppose it is just human to want more info about him as when baby is in distress you want the best possible person to be available. My midwife also assured me he was great Marilyn Sher. Whom are you with? Let me know how it goes with taking stitches out.

Marijke that is fantastic!

And I agree, at over 41 weeks I'd most likely also cut myself open. Hell I was close to doing that at 35 weeks

Hi,

If any of you are in CT, or even near CT and would like a vbac doctor, wow, I can highly recommend Jacky Searle at Vincent Pallotti. (we are going to her and Angela the midwife all the way from Malmesbury)

I had my first appointment with her on Monday and I fell in love, not once did she make me feel like I was risking my life or babies, we went through the reason for my first c-sec and she said based on what I said there is no good enough reason that I can't at least have a trial of labour, she can't predict what will happen on the day but if things progress naturally she'd give it as much time as needed and not recommend another c-sec without a good enough reason which we will discuss on the day if it should happen.

She said she wouldn't let me go too far past 41 weeks, but will give a day or two grace once we hit 41 weeks and if nothing she's going to have to perform a c-sec because they can't induce. I told her if I make it to 41 weeks I'd cut myself open with a blunt steak knife, no questions asked!

Hi Anneke. I have not yet seen him again. I will see him again on Monday 10th September. I have a Shirodkar suture in so he needs to take that out becasue I will be 37weeks by then.

To be honest, I also don't know much about him. I searched everywhere for recommendations or moms who had used him and NOTHING. I was worried about that at 1st, but my midwife assured me that she wouldn't have referred me to him if she didn't trust him.

Why did u move from old gynae?

From my one experience with him, he seems nice enough. I guess it takes a bit of time to built that connection with your gynae. I loved my old one and we chatted and laughed and I teased him a lot etc. So, obviously i don't have that with Dr Maasdorp but he was very thorough and took his time with me. Not rushed at all. I liked that about him cos with my old gynae, his rooms were always packed and you could just feel the pressure to get in & out as quickly as possible.

Hi, so glad I found someone else that has seen dr Maasdorp. I am with Marilyn Sher and have also shifted from my gynae to Maasdorp. Know he is only there in case of emergency but if emergency is t he case I want the best possible gynae. Have you seen him again? Can no t find any info on him....