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SassyMummy
22-09-2006, 00:24
Just reading back over the VBAC pages (there are only SIX of them, in all of BubHub's history! :eek: )...and I found a link to http://www.hencigoer.com/articles/vbac/

The site isn't particularly interesting, but there is one paragraph which I think makes a very valid point:


Is it reasonable for hospitals to refuse VBAC based on the argument that they don't have the staff or equipment to deal with potential emergencies? Again, the answer is "no." Emergencies occur in non-VBAC labors, and there are other situations that increase the chances of needing an emergency cesarean where hospitals don't make special exceptions such as induction of labor and epidural analgesia. If a hospital isn't safe for a VBAC labor, it isn't safe for any woman to labor there.

He makes a very good point - and one for you all to keep in mind whenever someone starts to argue that point with you.

Just thought I'd share.
Mamaduke
22-09-2006, 00:34
:smiliedance: Yay...SassyMummy's contributing...finally!!:smiliedance:

Just kidding...very good point;)
reAllytee
22-09-2006, 01:04
Thats soooo true !!!!!
Awesome point Stacey !!!!!
Go for it girls !!!!

Dare i say i wouldnt like to be the middie or doctor to say "no" to MD i think they should all be warned when she is coming their way :p :laughing:
SassyMummy
22-09-2006, 01:05
That's so mean! :crying:

....

:laughing: :yelclap: Good call.

It's not a PROPER contribution though (it's just recycled from someone else's post!)

I was actually thinking about calling as many hospitals as I could to see what their policies on VBAC were - and posting them here.

Any idea as to whether or not they'd tell me such things over the phone? (Probably not ....:rolleyes: )
reAllytee
22-09-2006, 01:13
Im sure if you pushed hard enough they could get it to you somehow maybe via email ?
Check the hospy's websites though because they have most info on there !
MamaSage
22-09-2006, 12:51
I was actually thinking about calling as many hospitals as I could to see what their policies on VBAC were - and posting them here.


I have thought about this too, getting a list of hospitals in each city and having the information available re: cesarean rates, VBAC rates, protocol regarding induction and time constraints on VBAC labours etc. Would be interesting, and I bet scary to see! Also maybe epidural rates, (one hosp in perth has a rate of 97% :eek: ) to look intot he cascade of intervention theory.

BTW Stacey, Henci is a woman ;) and her book 'The thinking woman's Guide to a Better Birth' is great. Lots of objective information, very no nonsense stuff.
SassyMummy
22-09-2006, 13:49
lol...thanks Carlia...I found out she was a woman after I posted that last night...but didn't bother to change it.

I actually think I MAY call a bunch of hospitals in QLD and see what they have to say for themselves.

Maybe others mothers in other states can call theirs?
DoulaFelicity
25-09-2006, 16:38
Henci has also written a great book called "Obstetric Myth Versus Research Reality" which you might be interested in checking out (along with "The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth" which has all the information you could ever need contained within it; much of it pertinent to Hospital VBAC). :)