Should have said that obviously everyone is different, and if  this mum has 
had other problems  maybe  there are valid concerns,   just mentioned the 
other mother to show that it  should not  be a blanket  recommendation based 
solely on 3 previous sections
Helen
England
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helen Butler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Lactation Information and Discussion" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 10:16 AM
Subject: 'weak wombs'


>
> Morgan
>    a former co-leader did a lot of  research  on VBACs  when she   was 
> pregnant with number 4 after  3 previous   c sections.  She ended up with 
> another section after labour not progressing,   at full term, but the 
> doc, knowing how many people had said the scar would split,  took a look 
> when he was in there and told her that  there would have been  no way that 
> it would have.  I can  track her  contact details down if you want to 
> contact me offline, but it was about  10 years ago, so the  info won't be 
> the most up to date.
> Helen
>>
>> A Mum has been asking me what I know about 'weak wombs' and not being
>> able to have more children as she's 'had to have 3 c-sections as she has
>> a weak womb'. And 'the hospital said I'd die, or the baby would if I get
>> pregnant again as I can't carry to term after three sections'.  Yet
>> she's had no investigations of her womb at all.  It's just that she's
>> had 3 c-sections, the subsequent 2 as she'd had 1, and 'everyone knows
>> the womb will rupture on the scar site'.
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the direction of appropriate research?  I know
>> nothing of this, apart from what I read here when people discuss when
>> others have been told they _have_ to have repeat c-sections.  And I'd
>> like to be able to pass on up to date and appropriate references for
>> this mother. I've been up front with her and told her I'm not the person
>> to ask, but as I said, I'd like to have some reliable evidence based
>> research to present to her for her own reading.  I'm not seeking an
>> 'answer', just reliable and sound factual evidence (in either direction).
>>
> 

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