STAT February 23, 2024
Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted cesarean section.
“[The obstetrician] wouldn’t even give me the option,” she recalled later in a podcast called “Healing Trauma Mamas.” Lineweaver said she felt like she “didn’t have control” and that the birth process was “a nightmare.”
Six months later, when she found out she was pregnant with her second baby, Lineweaver was committed to having a vaginal birth after a C-section, or VBAC. That meant there was a relatively small but increased chance that, during delivery, the scar from her prior surgery could...
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