Australian VBAC Stories

Today's episode brings you the stories of three births told by Jess. Her first baby was born via emergency caesarean under a fragmented care model, and she was especially unfortunate to develop postpartum preeclampsia afterwards which added to the struggles of that postpartum. After a journey of self-education, Jess went on to seek out care under the MGP at her local hospital for her VBAC. She...

Today we are honoured to bring you Renee's gorgeous VBAC story. Renee had her first baby via caesarean following a long early labour which led to an augmentation and a classic "failure to progress" diagnosis during the pushing stage of her posterior positioned baby. When she fell pregnant with her second baby, Renee knew she wanted to pursue a VBAC. She faced a number of challenges a...

Today we are thrilled to bring you an absolute cracker of an epsiode with the incredible Georgina's VBAC story. Georgina experienced a cascade of interventions during her first birth that ultimately ended with her being forced to choose between a forceps delivery and a caesarean. She chose a caesarean, not really knowing or understanding the risks of either, and in the process of her son's birth,...

Today we bring you the story of Georgia's two births. Georgia is another of our beautiful co-hosts, and in this episode, she shares so openly and generously about her experience birthing her two daughters, including how she went from planning a elective repeat caesarean with her second to a planned homebirth after caesarean with the support of a private midwife. Georgia obviously spent some time r...

Today we bring you the VBAC stories of one of our gorgeous co-hosts, Bronwyn. Bronwyn experienced the all-too-common cascade of interventions in her first pregnancy with an induction that led her to an emergency caesarean. She knew she needed a different experience when she fell pregnant with her second baby, and after initially planning a VBAC in hospital, she ended up planning a HBAC (homebirth...

In this special introductory episode, your co-hosts Katelyn, Georgia, Bronwyn and Aimee discuss why they have chosen to produce this podcast and why they think VBAC matters. Please join us on our journey to bringing you all kinds of VBAC stories from across the country from here on in by subscribing and following us on social media, @australianvbacstories on Instagram and Australian VBAC Stories o...