Second Mom to Be

You can always try to avoid a repeat abdominal surgery and go with a Midwife for a VBAC. I'm a second time around Mom, and due to my clinical training and prior experience with child birth unnecessarily snowballing into a cesarean - I've chosen to use a Midwife for this pregnancy and DAMN AM I HAPPY!!!

In my clinicals at an OB hospital, I had to watch women - who completely put their trust in their OBs, be scheduled for a major abdominal surgery simply because the OB was busy, didn't feel like waiting, had to get home or didn't want another OB to be the one paid for delivery their patient's baby. I also watched 6 cesareans - each one made me cringe and pray to all who was listening that I would not have to go thru such an operation again.

Each time you go under the knife - your chances of death increase. Anesthesia issues, cauterizing the wrong blood vessels, not seeing all the vessels left open (hemorrhage), puncturing of the bladder, intestines, kidney (all causes sepsis in under 24 hours and death if not caught before then) or even puncturing the baby. Most Mothers are not aware of the major life or death situation they make when they choose a cesarean or go to hospitals/OBs with a high cesarean rate.

It depends on what the Dr does. You can get the same thing most likely if you use the same Dr. If you have a different Dr, ask the doc what they like to use. I had the tape...literally like a long piece of butterfly stitch. I never thought it would hold but it really did and it healed great. I would NOT want the staples though. I have heard they PULL them out and I would throw up thinking about the pain.

You can always request them. it is your body. Are you going to be at the same hospital? Has you ob/midwife said anything about vbac? I have seen them work like there was no c-section before. I was aware of one of my girlfriends she was going for vbac. and there were compliantions. So not pushing it on you. just something to talk to doctor about and make the disolving stitches apart of your birth plan. even mamas having c-section can have birth plan and be in more control then they have ever let us women be!! congrats!!

-Libby

I had staples with my first and glue with my second. It depends on where you deliver and what is best for your incision. Your doctor should be able to tell you what they routinely use and let you know if you can specifically request that they use stitches. Good luck!

You can ask but it all depends on how the actual delivery goes if they can use them