There are a lot of myths out there about birth and it can be hard for someone to stand up and say "no, that's not the way it is" to people who've had this stuff ingrained in them for generations.

I'm not ttc yet but I've already had people in my family say to me:
"You should have a caesar because you have a very low pain threshold and would never handle the pain of a natural birth."
"You won't be able to have a natural birth because your Mum had to have caesars. She would have died if she'd tried a natural birth and so would have you and your siblings."

I've read a lot on childbirth but it's still going to be an uphill battle for me to get support for a natural/vaginal birth. It would be even harder for someone who might not be educated on the subject. Especially when all you ever hear are the horror stories and that normal natural births are the exception.