VBACfacts.com lists types of care providers
By Danell Swim
April 14, 2008
Care providers, OBs and midwives, can be broken down into three categories:
1. The ones who tell you outright they don’t to VBACs. While this is annoying, it is more honorable than the second type of care provider because at least they don’t…
2a. … tell you they are supportive, but then put so many qualifications on their support that it’s almost impossible to have a successful VBAC with them. Their requirements include things like (X refers to an arbitrary number your care provider comes up with):
- if your baby is less than X pounds
- if you consent to an IV
- if you consent to an epidural
- if you consent to continuous external, or internal, fetal monitoring
- if you stay in bed the whole time
- if you come to the hospital as soon as labor begins
- if you have the baby within X hours of labor starting
- if you have the baby within X hours of your water breaking
- if you agree to have a cesarean scheduled at X weeks “just in case” you don’t go into labor
- if you agree to be induced at X weeks
- if you go into labor by X weeks and if you don’t, you agree to have another cesarean or be induced
- it goes on, and on, and on…
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