If you could choose between a highly medicalised birth and an elective C-section, what would you choose?

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Yep, me again with my endless childbirth questions.

Consultant encouraging (but not pressurising) for VBAC. I'd be happy to have a crack at it (as it were) if I could go for as active a labour as possible - coped very well with full first stage last time by dancing about like a loon. However hospital blanket policy is to practically immobilise you with drips/monitors/ keep you lying down. Don;t have to decide for months but want to prepare.

What would you do?

i had em c section with ds1. Then a VBAC with dd1. Although i was hooked to a monitor the whole time and it was a ventouse delivery in the end, the VBAC was much better for me. I was able to change positions with help from the midwife, fairly frequently, recovery time was better and it was nice to hold the baby straight after it was born. Also good to know that i could go for a vaginal delivery next time and not be monitored.

Laughed at your 'happy to have a crack' comment on your OP btw.