1. Please give me your full name, how you want to be identified (full name, first name only, anon, etc.), your general location, number of children, number of cesareans, number of VBACs, anything else pertinent to your story.
My name is Ela. I'm Australian, I have one child, born unassisted on a soccer field in Brazil in 2003.
2. Did (do) you ever believe that you might have a cesarean? When did you first think that a cesarean was a possibility for your birth?
I would never have a cesarean. excluding a case of confirmed placenta praevia, there is simply no chance.
3. When did your practitioner bring up a discussion about cesarean? Before labor? During labor? Was it a surprise?
NA
4. If you had a cesarean, do you think you could have done anything to prevent it?
NA
5. If you had a cesarean, did you or your baby experience complications? If yes, which ones and how did you feel about this?
NA
6. If you had one good piece of advice for pregnant women or women considering having a baby, what would it be when it comes to cesarean prevention?
Read, read, read. Inform yourself. Hire a good doula, birth at home.
7. What is one sure way to have a cesarean?
not doing any of the above. surrendering control to an OB.
8. Did you try to prevent a cesarean? If so, how? (Did you switch doctors or midwives? Did you pay out of pocket for a homebirth? Did you stay home longer than you normally would have? Hire a doula? Stuff like that...)
NA - I gave birth unassisted.
9. Advice for pregnant women in talking to those offering birth horror stories?
same as #6.
10. Where did you get a positive view of birth? Where should others turn?
The book spiritual midwifery is probably a good place to start. don't watch tv shows or movies that depict 'westernised' birth. dont read hospital birth stories.
11. If you have had a VBAC, what resistance did you have? (If any.)
NA
12. What is the hardest part of having a VBAC?
NA
13. What was pregnancy like for you? What advice do you have in general for pregnant women? Feel free to add stories or quotes here.
Listen to your body. It knows how to give birth.
14. Anything else you’d like to add?
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Questions:1. Please give me
Questions:
1. Please give me your full name, how you want to be identified (full name, first name only, anon, etc.), your general location, number of children, number of cesareans, number of VBACs, anything else pertinent to your story.
My name is Ela. I'm Australian, I have one child, born unassisted on a soccer field in Brazil in 2003.
2. Did (do) you ever believe that you might have a cesarean? When did you first think that a cesarean was a possibility for your birth?
I would never have a cesarean. excluding a case of confirmed placenta praevia, there is simply no chance.
3. When did your practitioner bring up a discussion about cesarean? Before labor? During labor? Was it a surprise?
NA
4. If you had a cesarean, do you think you could have done anything to prevent it?
NA
5. If you had a cesarean, did you or your baby experience complications? If yes, which ones and how did you feel about this?
NA
6. If you had one good piece of advice for pregnant women or women considering having a baby, what would it be when it comes to cesarean prevention?
Read, read, read. Inform yourself. Hire a good doula, birth at home.
7. What is one sure way to have a cesarean?
not doing any of the above. surrendering control to an OB.
8. Did you try to prevent a cesarean? If so, how? (Did you switch doctors or midwives? Did you pay out of pocket for a homebirth? Did you stay home longer than you normally would have? Hire a doula? Stuff like that...)
NA - I gave birth unassisted.
9. Advice for pregnant women in talking to those offering birth horror stories?
same as #6.
10. Where did you get a positive view of birth? Where should others turn?
The book spiritual midwifery is probably a good place to start. don't watch tv shows or movies that depict 'westernised' birth. dont read hospital birth stories.
11. If you have had a VBAC, what resistance did you have? (If any.)
NA
12. What is the hardest part of having a VBAC?
NA
13. What was pregnancy like for you? What advice do you have in general for pregnant women? Feel free to add stories or quotes here.
Listen to your body. It knows how to give birth.
14. Anything else you’d like to add?