For me it was what would give me the least anxiety throughout the pregnancy, and what I thought had the most manageable risks. I had a fantastic OB who I trusted implicitly, and his opinion was to go for a repeat c-section so I went with that. I knew that I would feel far less anxiety going into a controlled environment rather than attempting a vbac and always worrying about what could go wrong. Others would have seen the risks the other way around but that is how I felt and it was what was right for me.
Also, given the difficulty we had conceiving my children I had kind of lost faith in my body's ability, so given how high-intervention their conception was the high-intervention birth didnt bother me at all.
Also, the reason we had the c-section for the first was likely to repeat (which it did anyway), which was another decider.
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