Your hospital is an aberration.  A wonderful, intelligent aberration, but
most definitely not representative of what most of have to deal with.

Best,

Jay

From:    Mary Grace Lanese <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ACOG statement

Lest anyone think that hospitals within the USA only give "lip service" to
women who request VBAC, I would like to set the story straight. I work in a
regional tertiary care hospital with a level 111 ICN. We have
Perinatologists who care for the most high risk and extremely sick women. We
could hardly be more "high tech" and yet we have a number of practicing
midwives who offer women the other end of the spectrum. Some of our OB's
continue to perform VBACs. I was not able to open the ACOG statement but
from the comments on Lactnet I can tell I would disagree. Surely I don't
work at the only US hospital where VBACs are still performed. Oh, to tie
this to breastfeeding, we have a 75%-85% breastfeeding rate. We have not
achieved BFHI designation but continue to work on it and are very close. no
surprise, step #6 is the major hurdle.

Mary Grace Lanese, RN, BSN, IBCLC

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