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I’m featured again on ABC News for their Million Moms Challenge, raising money for babies and moms around the world that are in need. If you haven’t yet, please sign up for the challenge! This time, I wrote about labor. About how we all enter into labor and delivery with some type of expectations and fears and things could go exactly as planned (lucky you!) or, more likely, totally different. I probably shouldn’t have watched this first thing in the morning, because it has me sobbing. This woman went through TWO unnecessary c-sections and ended with a VBAC homebirth in the water. It’s beautiful. The pictures shown at the end really got to me… I have nearly the exact same picture from after my cesarean – my first time meeting Ryan, strapped to a table, unable to touch him, and too drugged up to know left from right. I can’t Keep Reading Cesarean vs. VBAC The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released a new guidelines today on VBACs (vaginal births after cesareans). While I was getting prepped for my c-section, the nurse told me I’d probably never have a vaginal birth (after I asked, sobbing). The clinic where my OB works does not allow VBACs. In fact, there is only one clinic here with doctors willing to do them (note that I live in a city where the hospitals/clinics serve a population of roughly Keep Reading ACOG finally updates VBAC guidelines : HUGE NEWS! I know I just posted about c-sections and sometimes I wonder how much babble about it my readers can handle, but I’ve been meaning to write about these issues for awhile and I wanted to address some of the comments on my last post… so I decided now was a good time for this post. Thanks for putting up with me I feel I’ve made tremendous progress in dealing with my c-section. I still rant about it on occasion, Keep Reading Two memories of the hospital I CANNOT get over. Help? As most of you know, I had an unnecessary c-section and I’m still dealing with my feelings about it (mainly anger at this point… and still some huge disappointment in myself). Many people have suggested I write a letter to my OB about it. Whether I actually give it to her or not, just writing it will be healing. Most of you also pointed out the fact that I will probably end up writing and re-writing and Keep Reading Letter to my OB: 1st draft |
      
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