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Birthing Instincts

#403 VBAC or Cesarean, An Honest Assessment of Risk & Benefit.

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Parenting, Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Birthing Instincts Podcast, Blyss and Dr. Stu explore the risks and benefits of cesarean sections (C-sections) and vaginal births after cesareans (VBACs). They discuss the pros and cons of home births versus hospital births. In a hospital setting, expectant parents benefit from a large, skilled medical team, while home births offer more control over the birthing experience and additional time for bonding with the baby.

It's crucial to consider the entire pregnancy when making this decision. When opting for a home birth, having assistance from a certified nurse-midwife or access to an obstetrician is essential, as home births carry their own risks. Planning ahead is vital in this scenario. Educating oneself is equally important to ensure the best choices are made for both the mother and the baby. Tune in to learn more!

In this episode

  • Risks and benefits of VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) and C-sections;
  • The probabilities of some of those risks after previous C-sections;
  • Why people are choosing home births;
  • How to choose between home births and hospital births.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

0:05.0

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and longtime advocate for birth choices.

0:10.0

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

0:13.0

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

0:17.0

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.

0:25.2

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good middle of the night, Blister. I'm so excited today because I have you all to myself.

0:33.2

Yeah, you must be in a good mood because you call me Blister. You haven't called me that in a long time.

0:39.1

That's just my name for you when nobody else is on with us.

0:42.2

My favorite one actually is the blisterious one.

0:47.8

You know, that goes back to my high school youth group days.

0:53.4

We used to call each other these very strange names,

0:56.4

and we had somebody that was called, not the mysterious one, but something one, and it just comes

1:01.8

into my head sometimes. My long-term memory is working really well. It's my short-term memory

1:06.6

that's really a problem. Yeah, we adapt, right? We adapt, we adapt.

1:12.7

Yeah, so we're going to talk today, but I got a lot before we get to it.

1:16.5

We're going to talk today a little bit more on the V-back repeat C-section issue.

1:23.8

And I'm going to talk about risks.

1:25.5

The risks for V-back are always emphasized.

1:29.0

Right.

1:29.6

The risks for C-section are downplayed.

1:32.8

We want to talk about that, especially for women that are considering having multiple children.

1:38.4

So we'll get to that.

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