second baby - stats for VBAC / ELCS?

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I had my DD by CS after a failed induction and three days of hanging about on the ward at 42wks. DD never engaged.
Trying to get round to thinking about having another DC, and looking at options.
Listening to my friends who had a VBAC, everyone has a VBAC. Listening to my friends who had a ELCS, everyone has an ELCS.
Before I embark on a search for national stats for birth "types" in the UK after a first section, anyone got figures at hand?

I looked at this when I had my second dc 4 years ago, and at the time, I found a statistic that 25% of women who'd had cs the first time tried for a VBAC. So definitely not "everybody". Of course there may be medical reasons why some of the 75% who didn't try for a VBAC couldn't have one, but anyway those were the figures then.

Out of that 25%, approximately 66% got a vaginal birth and the rest ended up with emergency cs, so slightly lower vaginal birth rate than the 75% of all first births. If you break it down further into the reason for cs the first time, there is a difference: less likely to need a cs the second time if the first time it was because the baby was breech, more likely if for a reason to do with the mother like failure to progress.

Sorry, I can't remember the website I got these figures from but it was an official NICE one. I think there is a NICE website giving information about cs in general?

Thks TuttiFrutti, that's the kind of figures I was afer, I'll hunt for the NICE docs and will look at the risks associated with all options / case scenarios

I can give you the stats for my local hospital (which midwife says are a little below the national average). These are stats for 2010.

For women who have not had a previous vaginal devlivery, 70% go for VBAC. Of those, 66% have a VBAC and 50% of those have an assisted delivery.

RCOG best practice guidelines are really useful. I also had a meeting with the consultant midwife who was able to give me the local stats and discuss various scenarios with me.

:)