Negotiate Christy! Tell them as a woman giving birth in their hospital, the very most you will accept is intermittent monitoring, with a doppler. What are they going to do, throw you out?! I know VBAC women who have had healthy births without continuous monitoring - assuming they are worried about uterine rupture, perhaps you can print some doco off and give it to them, which shows that rupture is just as common in caesars (was it a little more?) and I also think it's more common in first births than subsequent? Must check that. Some will also say it's up to your Ob to make the decision. At the end of the day you can say no to anything, internals included. Henci Goer has a great section on VBAC which I am sure you have read

Wouldn't that be cool to have Alan at your birth?! You'll be famous Alan hehehehe!!! And I am sure Christy is deadly serious so you better send her that email!!!