Second birth

Unless your spaced out between births. You could have a vbac but usually doctors go straight to c section if you’ve had one prior. Or push it more than they would to someone who hasn’t. So it wouldn’t be so emergency but planned. And that would make it less traumatic too.

So for the uk, the NHS says you have a70-80% chance of a vaginal birth after a 1st c section as long as you wait at least 18 months between births. Preferably 2 years. But I don't know if they've updated the statistics considering that the risk for a c section in any birth is now 35-40%. It depends a little bit on why you had the emergency section as well. Ask for a debrief from the hospital and ask this question to them. In my case they recommended a vbac for next birth as there is no reason to think what caused my first emergency section would happen again. And looking at the facts it doesn't really look like my case was such an emergency more like the doctor couldn't wait and wanted to go home. They push continuous fetal monitoring which is more likely to raise false alarms and bring about unnecessary c sections like in my case the ctg machine kept slipping off so instead of finding me a machine that worked or using a doppler every 15 mins they terrified me into signing for a c section

@Alex my boy was looking up and got stuck and his heart rate was dropping every time I pushed so that’s why I had the section, he’s 4 months and still bloody looking up 😂 it was an induction too so idk if that was a possible cause… it went so smoothly up to then, they broke my waters as I dilated enough on my own and then got to 10cm & was pushing, I don’t remember much I was so out of it

@Victoria I’d just really love to have a vaginal birth once is all & I worry even if it was planned I’d still panic, I had really bad panic attacks during, they threatened to put me to sleep and ended up sedating me 😂 heart rate got to 220 cause of how scared I was 🙊

I was told litrally as they moved me off the theatre bed that I should be able to successfully have a VBAC next time (there will be no next time for me personally) it takes 2 years for your body to properly recover from pregnancy so that will be when you're most likely to be able to give birth vaginally. Before then the biggest risk is that the scar tissue hasn't had enough time to heal and you can end up tearing along the scar tissue and that's bad, bad, bad news. Which is why they advise a other c seven before 2 years usually

I recently had a successful VBAC in the birth centre with gas and air, 20 months after having an ‘emergency c section’. This time around, I was well informed with what I wanted and because I did my research, I wasn’t scared by consultants telling me all the risks (which compared to other every day things isn’t that high). I spoke with the birth centre team straight away and their support really helped me. The recommendation after a c section is to be on the labour ward with continuous monitoring. With that however, I know that intervention after intervention happens and then a c section usually follows. So I had to have an ‘out of guidance’ plan put in place. With that being said, I was ‘low risk’, and I guess things may be different with GD, high bmi, predicted big baby etc

Like above, the biggest risk they put across is uterine scar rupture, but a c section also poses that risk

Oh incognito how frustrating for you to get so far! I hope you know that you did amazingly and you should be really proud of yourself. Sounds like it was really necessary and I hope you can recover but remember your boy won't remember it at all and it is a tiny percentage of his life. Sounds like you made all the right choices and it was out of your hands. I also worry about panicking in a repeat section. I did complex cbt therapy for my birth trauma and the therapist gave me some ideas of how to cope. If you do have a surgery phobia like me please know you can tell this on booking your next pregnancy and the midwives will help you find a way to help you cope in theatre. I didn't know we would be allowed to bring a picture into theatre to look at. I would definitely bring one of my LO! And you can get therapy for anxiety/panic during the pregnancy don't have to wait for ppd after birth!

@Alex thank you, yeah I’ll definitely be letting them know how severe my anxiety is for surgery, I never knew it would be like that but I also assumed C-sections weren’t that common 😂 little did I know 🤦🏼‍♀️ worst case I wonder if they can sedate upon request cause that’s what they ended up doing 😅