Lindsay was nervous but determined to try for a vaginal birth after her two prior cesareans. Her story shows us that even when there are little bumps along the way, it doesn’t mean GAME OVER. Stay positive, be educated so you can make informed decisions about your care, especially in the face of someone urging you to throw in the towel.

-Brianna

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My first birth was induction ( prodromal labor) induced since they could not stop contractions. Labor lasted 24hrs and c-section after 2.5 hrs of pushing and baby not descending. The second was a c-section at 36 weeks

With my third pregnancy I was admitted at 36 weeks contracting and running a fever. Ob was sure I would deliver within 48 hrs to 10 days but Jaszer had a different plan. I had been walking for days on in and was dilated to a 2-3 and 50% effaced. That stayed that way until my induction day, I finally begged to be induced at 38.3 because for 2 weeks I could not walk and did not want to go overdue with my school starting back just in case I ended up in the OR with a c-section!

Finally Dr. D agreed at 39.3. We got to the hospital at 12:30 am they checked me still a 3 and hooked me up to pitocin. A few minutes later they came in with ultrasound and we discovered in the last day he had turned completely transverse! I was devastated! My nurse who I know personally, tried to be optimistic and called my OB at 1:30 and he said turn it all off I will be there in the morning. The other nurse who did the sonogram was not so optimistic and told me I might as well go home Dr. D would never try and turn him and she was shocked he was even letting me try a VBAC. Then said I might as well have a c-section because I would never have this baby.

In the meantime I did lots of praying and standing on my head basically to try and encourage baby to turn. So, at 7 sonogram came in again and he was still transverse. Then anesthesia came in and insisted I have a light epidural Dr D was going to try and turn him as soon as he got out of surgery, so 8 am I got that and Dr. D was tied up until 1:30. By now my drugs have worn off. Dr D did the next sonogram and baby had turned head down and I had started contracting on my own! He checked me I was dilated to a 5 so he broke my water and by 3:30 I was fully dilated. He had me labor down for 1 hour until he made it back to the hospital and we started pushing. My contractions had slowed to every 4-5 min so I pushed for 30 min and we had a baby boy!

He weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and was 22 inches long. I had very light dose of anesthesia right before delivery when contractions were 2 min apart to help ease the pain, but I was able to move my legs the entire time making it so much easier to push. I was up walking an hour after he was born.

The evening primrose oil, I feel, really helped. Thank you again for all your knowledge and help, I was determined to have him my way! Not completely natural as planned but it was extremely close!!