“It was a lot of emotional turmoil, to be honest, facing all that rejection.”
“It was about six months of actively making calls, researching, going to appointments and being told ‘no,’” said Alyssa Schaffer, a senior scientist at the Simons Foundation living in Manhattan, who sought a VBAC. They’ve had doctors refuse care during childbirth, and the hundreds of hours, sometimes months, spent on research, appointments and searching for a care provider take their toll. Others leave a hospital mid-labor to find another doctor. Some resort to driving themselves hours while in labor, alone. Meanwhile, some pregnant women who want VBACs are putting themselves in risky situations because they can’t find a hospital or care provider who will allow them to try. It’s faster and easier for a practitioner to schedule a C-section than to wait for a patient’s labor to progress naturally, and, a new international review suggests doctors may choose C-sections to guard against malpractice lawsuits.Ī new international review suggests doctors may choose C-sections to guard against malpractice lawsuits. VBACs are controversial in the American medical community, and some hospitals or doctors refuse to perform them, despite guidance from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that they are a safe option for many women.Īfter having a C-section, women may want a VBAC because they want to avoid major surgery, have a religious or personal preference or had a traumatic C-section experience in the past.īut hospitals or doctors cite their own reasons for refusing VBACs. Some women who have had one or more cesarean sections, like she did, may want to give birth vaginally with their next child, a practice known as a vaginal birth after cesarean, or VBAC. This time, after months of frustrating research, meeting with 10 doctors and two doulas, calling advocacy groups and learning about birthing options, she was determined to have a vaginal birth, but had not found a hospital in her area that would accept her plan. Skrenes had been in labor twice before, and both times resulted in a C-section. For hours, Alicia Skrenes paced around a hotel room two hours from her home, waiting to be far enough along in labor to go to the hospital.
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