Don't Cut Me Again! True Stories about Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (Vbac)

by Angela J. Hoy

In these pages, readers will hear true stories from women who refused to submit to the medical communitys threats and fear-tactics and, after having a prior c-section, successfully birthed their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591139945
• ISBN13: 9781591139942
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Inspirational and amazing!

I can't say enough about how much reading this book helped me. I have had a previous c-section and plan to go with a VBAC and a good portion of that choice was helped by this book. These women are amazing. They stood up for what they believed in and what they believed in was their body! Some of them agonized at first but in the end felt they made the right and healthiest choice. I applaud them all. If you are in doubt about your choice I can't recommend this book enough to you.

VBAC Heaven...

Fabulous book has some great stories (real life) to prepare and inspire you for your VBAC. I read at least a story from this book each night to keep me positive and luckily I got my VBAC.

SO many helpful stories

What attracted me to this book was that these are actual birth stories of women and families that tried for VBAC. Statistics, studies, politics and opinions are fine, but I want to make my own decision! Do you want to know "what is VBAC really like?" this is a way to find out; learn from people who have been there/done that. After reading it, it was exactly what I wanted- I can learn something from every mother's experience. Not every C-section is "evil" and not every vaginal birth is "perfect" but you do read the patterns of (often unneeded) medical intervention, and realize that next time you can have more confidence to create and experience birth, whatever it brings.

Great compilation of the fight VBAC women face

This is a wonderful compilation of VBAC stories that show just how hard women often have to fight for their basic right to birth. It shows the high rate of interferences and intervention one can expect with a hospital, actively managed birth, which makes this book useful in learning how to anticipate the fights and how to avoid them (whether it be by knowing what questions to ask, how to effectively refuse, or to change your birth attendant/birth place to a more supportive one). This book doesn't have studies or stats which, while I think are important to know, make this book special in that it helps remind you that birth is not about numbers- it's about women becoming mothers, babies joining families. And as a side note, my CBAC story is in there- the one with the sabotaged hospital VBAC attempt where I was flat out lied to and coerced into an unnecessary, traumatizing repeat cesarean. I went on to birth my third child at home after two cesareans, almost a full pound bigger than my 'too big' baby that took too long for the doctor to wait for with my second child ;)

A must read!

For all those who are contemplating a VBAC or those studying birth this is a must read book. It shows the empowerment of women who trust in their bodies and birth the way THEY want to birth rather than how they are TOLD to birth.