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Name: Kristi Branham on Dec 27, 2007Comments: I believe that women should have the choice of having a VBAC after having a Caesarean section, based on their health and the health of their pregnancies, and not on the medical liabilities of the locality.Flag
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Name: Roseanne on Dec 27, 2007Comments: I also wonder about the surgeons' sterile technique and caesarean section infection rate at St. Pete's..... Perhaps a website suchas ican-online.com has this statistic too.Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Blaine on Dec 27, 2007Comments: My first child was born via unplanned cesarean at St Peters. With my next child I had to travel to another city just to have the chance at a normal birth because of St Petes policy.Flag
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Name: Stephanie Meza on Dec 27, 2007Comments: Women should be able to birth the way their bodies are made to!!!!!!Flag
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Name: Berta Halverson on Dec 28, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Halverson on Dec 28, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Andrew Blaine on Dec 28, 2007Comments: My family has been severely affected by this policy. I am disgusted by our hospital's disregard for a persons rights. They are more worried with remodeling and rebuilding than meeting the "requirements" they say they have to meet. There are local OBGYN's that support VBAC, but have to send their patients elsewhere due to this ban. SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!!!!!!!!Flag
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Name: Valerie Lehman on Dec 28, 2007Comments: Please do what is needed to allow women to choose the way they deliver! This choice effects a women's mind just as much as her body, & her child's health. Extra staff is a small price to pay, to do the right thing. Please support one of life's most important and natural events.Flag
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Name: Freda Wilkinson on Dec 28, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Nanette Gilbertson on Dec 28, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Kelly Chehock on Dec 28, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Joshua Monteith on Dec 29, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Amy Budke on Dec 29, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Dawn DeLumeau on Dec 31, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Deb Tyanich on Dec 31, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Moriah Peck on Dec 31, 2007Comments: I had a C-section at St. Pete's in 2006 for the birth of my first baby. My partner and I are considering having another child and even though my doctor says I am an 'excellent' candidate' for a VBAC, I was very disappointed to hear it is not an option for me because of issues with St. Pete's malpractice insurance. I think the decision for me to have a VBAC should be up to me and my doctor - not the insurance company.Flag
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Name: Catherine W. Ockey on Dec 31, 2007Comments: This ban hurts ALL women by denying the best medical care to women with previous Ceserean deliveries. It also is dangerous to children.Flag
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Name: Debbie Jakovac on Jan 1, 2008Comments: A ban is so backward thinking! and doesn't make sense at all - I had one of the first VBACs in Helena back in '84, and it went fine, as did two more births at St Pete's. What about a liability release form for the patient Bottom line, its not cool to try to make a woman choose surgical birth, when those complications probably exceed the ones from a VBAC.Flag
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Name: Denise Hartman on Jan 2, 2008Comments: 1. This will make the cost of all of insurance rates increase for people who live in Helena. 2. I have known many people who safely delivered vaginally after a c-section. My sister, Donna Harris's, first child was a c-section in 1993 and she delivered three additional children vaginally all at St. Peter's Hospital. After her c-section, her other children's labor & delivery times were all less than 2 hours for each child without any kind of complication. I'm sure thousands of women are VBAC's and are happy and proud to make this claim. 3. Is it St. Peter's right to population controlRequiring a c-section will limit the amount of children a person can have -- this is not the right of the hospital do so so. If I were in this position, I would sue the hospital due to limiting my rights for my choice to the number of children I would want to have due to St. Peter's law of required c-sections. I am very proud mother of seven children all born vaginally. Their ages range from twenty-one to four years old. My older children are all on the honor roll or recieve 4.0 GPAs. The younger children are very socially developed and intelligent. Who gives St. Peters the right to make the choice for parents to say they can only have 3 to 4 children due to the fact that they are required have to have a c-section deliveryFlag
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Name: Sally Zapata on Jan 3, 2008Comments: I had 3 C-sections. But I did try to have a V-BAC with my 2nd child. I think this should be our choise,not theirs. This is a free country not a 3rd world country. Even though my V-BAC was not succesful their are so mary that are.Flag
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Name: Sally Zapata on Jan 3, 2008Comments: I had 3 C-sections. But I did try to have a V-BAC with my 2nd child. I think this should be our choise,not theirs. This is a free country not a 3rd world country. Even though my V-BAC was not succesful their are so mary that are.Flag
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Name: Nichole Grawer on Jan 6, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Donna Birkholz on Jan 8, 2008Comments: Maternal and infant morbidity are the same from amniotomy as they are from VBAC. But I bet St. Pete's and its OBs do amniotomies all the time! C-sections significantly increase maternal and infant morbidity and death - even "low risk" planned c-sections! The USA ranks 40th in the world for its maternal death rate (the bottom of the Developed World for both that and our infant death rates). Interestingly, we have one of the highest c-section rates. This isn't responsible medicine. It's sacrificing the health, wellbeing, and even lives of mothers and their babies to protect the hospital's perceived bottom line (c-sections raise more money for hospitals, and insurance companies for whatever reason have decided that despite the increased death rates, increased long-term disabilties etc. associated with c-sections, they somehow look safer in court). I'm outraged to see this happening in Helena!Flag
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Name: Amanda Mann on Jan 8, 2008Comments: Please consider rethinking and revising your policies on VBAC. It can make a tremendous difference in the birth perceptions of many VBAC mamas.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 8, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Laura on Jan 8, 2008Comments: As a mother who is planning my VBA2C, this ban really hits home. Taking a mothers right to birth the way she wants is horrible.Flag
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Name: Teresa Schnur on Jan 8, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Holly Clark on Jan 8, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: T Coulter on Jan 8, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Cynthia Maxwell on Jan 9, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 9, 2008Comments: Forcing women to have a c-section again is terrible! Most women are fine to have a vaginal birth as long as they have been stitched in two layers and have no other risks. Give women a chance to experience birth as God designed it. It is safe and empowering!Flag
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Name: Alakhi McLain on Jan 10, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 12, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Meara on Jan 17, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Georgeanne Paul on Jan 17, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kathy on Jan 27, 2008Comments: please ban the VBACSFlag
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Name: Timara on Jan 30, 2008Comments: This is outrageous!!! VBACs can be a great thing and a woman should not have to be forced to be cut open again!Flag
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Name: Jessica Barton on Feb 20, 2008Comments: Giving birth is a life-changing event in the life of a woman. She needs to be able to work with her care provider to make decisions that are best for her so that she will feel good about the experience for the rest of her life. I hope that you will re-examine this policy and give women who have had a previous cesarean and are candidates for VBAC the chance to choose between VBAC and repeat cesarean.Flag
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Name: Tania Reguin on May 18, 2008Comments: I have had 4 previous vbacs and have no intention of setting foot inside St. Peter's hospital. I have opted to deliver this baby at home. Just wondering...why is the medical community pushing elective c-sections on the grounds of a woman's right to choose, but are denying VBACs saying it's too dangerousFlag
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Name: Anonymous on May 21, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Erika Reece on Jun 12, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Laura Fitzpatrick on Jul 8, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sarah Clark on Aug 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sherri Delman on Nov 13, 2008Comments: To ban VBAC essentially negates patient autonomy, i.e. the right to informed consent and informed refusal of treatment, which is against tort law, constitutional law, etc., etc., etc., and I have just successfully sued the hospital who recently denied my VBAC and forced me into an unnecessary cesarean against my will. Birth is a beautiful, natural process and should be respected and supported. Do the right thing and obey the law.Flag
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Name: Jodie Lineaweaver on Sep 25, 2009Comments:Flag
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Name: Mara MacDoald on Sep 25, 2009Comments: Give women the choice. St Peters is losing money because vbacs have to go to another city.Flag
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Name: Kim Lineaweaver on Sep 28, 2009Comments:Flag
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Name: Amber Norwood on Sep 28, 2009Comments:Flag
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Name: CASSANDRA MEIXNER on Dec 9, 2009Comments:Flag
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Name: Robert Arlint on Dec 10, 2009Comments:Flag