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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2167777" data-attributes="member: 2205">She didn't remember the title; this was at least seven years ago when she was pregnant with my daughter who...  well, naturally, she's about to turn seven in a month or two.  There look to be a few good ones out there, though, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558321292/qid=1113502014/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9092591-2147338?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" target="_blank">this one</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0897932021/qid=1113502014/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-9092591-2147338?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" target="_blank">this one</a>.  In fact, I think it's very likely that one of those two was the one she read; I remember seeing it around and both titles resonate, and the image of the title of the second book looks familiar.I don't recall any specific qualifications that they discussed with her, and they may not have specifically.  The same OB-GYN delivered both of them, and had been my wife's GYN since before we were married anyway, so she knew her pretty well.  IIRC, the books discuss what makes a woman a good candidate or not.  In our case, the cause for the emergency C-section wasn't anything much to do with my wife, but with my son, who was "stuck" in the birth canal and undergoing fetal distress.How far along are you?  I'd pick up one of those two books (or another) and discuss the possibilities of a VBAC with your OB-GYN immediately.  If there are any particular warning conditions that would make VBAC unadvisable, (s)he'll probably let you know right away.  In general, the profession is much more positive about VBACs than they used to be a few years ago; it used to be as die_kluge said; it was almost automatic that if you had one Caesarian, you were stuck with them forever.As an aside, we also went through the extremely long, slow progression labor with our first -- hard contractions for over 12 hours and all that, which was probably a major contributor to the fetal distress, along with the pitosin (sic?) they gave her to try and progress.  With no. 2, however, on the first VBAC, she got her epiderul at about 5 centimeters around 8-8:30 in the evening.  Within about 45 minutes, she had progressed the last 5 centimeters, starting pushing, and Jessica was born before 9:00 PM.  Of course, we realize that that's not just easy relative to our first, it was easy altogether, and that may have contributed considerably to her experience with the VBAC.  But with each of our kids the labor time has shrunk; only our first was really a long, difficult labor.</blockquote>

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