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Kblogger– reading your comment made me teary eyed. You may be right… I haven’t talked about it in person with anyone other than Steve, my mom and a close friend. None of which have gone through this. I’m looking into starting an ICAN chapter in my city and am actually meeting with a woman about it this weekend (hopefully). I think that will do me a lot of good. So far I posted my story on an ICAN email list–and I think that is actually what sent some of these medical professionals here to attack me–sadly. So I am scared to write there again. You said- “find the awesome in your birth, find where you were strong and felt good..” — that part had me teary eyed because I don’t see any of that (at least not yet). But that is great advice, and I will try!!! I want to write another post soon about the great advice I’ve gotten and how I plan on making progress. Thank you so much for sharing and for your advice… I haven’t read Birthing From Within, but now I plan on going to buy it!!

2nd – to the “Good Doctor” – I agree with nursebrittney, can I come visit your hospital? It might be one I’d actually be willing to go to.

I’m impressed with your stats and the 11% rate–and even more impressed with the warnings to the doctors who have rates higher than that. I wonder what the rate is at the hospital I went to- or really, what my OBs rate is. Will they just tell me that information over the phone if I call and ask??

Also.. a few people have posted links to articles which are the ones I read and got my stats. One of them states that 3% of csections are actually necessary and that the % shouldn’t be over 10. They also cite research for the 1 in 3 women with fertility issues… again, it’s not complete infertility, just trouble getting pregnant again. And when I asked on twitter I got a response that was probably about that – 1 in 3 replies were having issues with fertility or knew someone who was following a csection. (I realize there is nothing scientific about asking on twitter and I may have more csection women following me, etc.- I’m just saying…)

It IS terrible the pressure insurance companies put on doctors to not to VBACs, etc. and I don’t know what we can do about that. It definitely puts providers between a rock and a hard place. Just as we are feared into making decisions we may not want, doctors are feared into it as well. I get that. (But not in the case of my birth…)

The Good Doctor, I’d love to meet you and talk with you. It seems you are so very willing to learn and connect with patients and wanting to do the right thing. Do you perform VBACs?