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374 | Diana, two babies, spontaneous labour, epidural, fourth-degree tear, fistula, doula, MGP, physiological birth, second-degree tear

Australian Birth Stories

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Can I Have Another Vaginal Birth?

I felt quite confident to have another baby and a big thing for me was I want to have that redeeming birth that I didn't quite get the first time. An obstetrician said there's been a lot of study to show that with perineal support during the pushing stage of labor that you can haveQuite a good outcome of very minimal tearing or no tearing at all. That was sort of my last discussion with any OB regarding an expert and he was quite positive about it so that's how I felt going into the next pregnancy that it could be okay. And did you want to go to the same hospital given you got quite unlucky with your midwife sounds? Did you want to

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