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<p>Any of you ladies planning vbac's? if so, feel free to check in here and tell us your story. This will be my second vbac so I am not nearly as stressed and frantic about it as I was last time! I had my first son, the c-section in Japan, basically a slow leak in my fluid with no real labour after, 5 days later I reluctantly agreed to be induced. Once in the hospital, there was endless internal checks, a maxed out induction that after 8hrs started to cause stress on my son's heart beat. I convinced them to stop the pitocin and wait till the morning, the labour stopped and by morning I had an infection (probably from all the internal checks) so we had the c-section. It was a very hard time, my son was super healthy and had no problem breastfeeding but I couldn't help but feel like if I had been in a different environment the birth could have turned out better. So baby #2, back in Canada, I couldn't get a spot in one of our local birth centres, there is a huge demand and not that many spots. I was followed by my family Dr. but hired an underground private midwife around 20 weeks. So for the rest of the pregnancy I was kind of checked by both the Dr and the midwife until I finally told my Dr my plans. Then had my son at home with my midwife and her assistant, 9 days after my due date. Long slow labor but NO STRESS! I plan to have a homebirth again this time but it all depends if I am able to get a spot in one of the birth centres or not. If I do get a spot, then I don't have to pay for the midwife, which would be ideal! We will see! </p>