So.
Bear with me.

I am just not getting it. WHY does having a VBAC need to be some big deal/ordeal?

I can understand that for women who have never laboured, or had other physical issues that led to c/s that overcoming these - either physically or mentally - will be a big deal.

But I had no physical reason for the emergency c/s I had with DD. There was nothing *wrong* or *off* with MY body, my ability to labour and birth etc. The issue was with DD herself, not me.

So all this talk of VBAC encouragement is really having the exact opposite effect.
After having Charlotte I had NO doubt AT ALL that I would and could happily and healthily birth a child vaginally if I wanted to.
But now all I seem to read about VBAC is that is needs to be some huge effort, and I need to read 17 more books than I did with the first and empower myself (what ever that means) and it is really making me feel like I am missing something, making me doubt my body, not give me confidence in it.

I wasn't scared of the first labour - I was hell scared of ending up with a c/s, which happened and was terrible. But I wasn't scared of labour this time either until I started applying a "VBAC" tag to it.

Why do I have to have a label?
Why can't I just be Woman Giving Birth Second Time Around?
Please tell I am not the only one who feels like this? Surely VBAC doesn't have to be some monumental hurdle for women who had no physical impediment to vaginal birth in the first place?

Yeah. Because quite honestly I am freaking out about the birth this time - labour, not phased - the actual BIRTH is scaring the hell out of me - I don't like feeling like this, it seems so unnecessary...
Can someone please give me permission to NOT get all caught up in this VBAC hooplah?