Labor and Delivery

What I think is sad is that this woman has to leave her family and give birth to her baby 350 miles away from her home and husband, and that she does not have the option of a VBAC within 7 hours drive from her home!  Many doctors are saying that if a woman wants an elective cesarean, even an elective primary, she should have the the right to choose that ... but on the flip side, many of them feel that women should not have the right to choose a VBAC.

VBAC was encouraged in the 1980's and 1990's.  A spontaneous VBAC is no less safe now, but doctors made VBAC overall more dangerous by inducing VBAC moms. This was not done in the early years of VBAC, and when doctors started doing that, it raised the rates of rupture.

Many women know that with a VBAC, there is about a 1/200 risk of uterine rupture. What many women do not know, and their doctors do not tell them before doing the first cesarean, is that if you've already had a cesarean, you have a 1/500 risk of rupture in your next pregnancy, no matter how you plan to give birth to this baby. 

As a childbirth educator and experienced mom, I only know personally one woman who ever experienced a uterine rupture, and it occurred during a planned repeat cesarean section, with devastating consequences.

I know I got a little off topic here, but I applaud this mom for doing everything within her powers to seek out what she feels is the safest and healthiest option to birth her baby, and I'm sorry that she needs to go to these measures to do so