Know your hospital's VBAC policies and negotiate well before the birth for anything different. Try a variety of positions. Standing or walking instead of lying down facilitates labor and squatting to push can be most effective. Try sitting on the toilet. Continue calorie and fluid intake.
Labor is hard work and takes a lot of energy.
Fasting may also make it harder for the uterus to work. Throughout pregnancy practice relaxation and visualization with exercises, tapes, massage, affirmation and touch. Avoid medical intervention whenever possible. Continuous electronic fetal monitoring may restrict your movement and artificial induction such as rupture of the membranes can usually be avoided. Ask for more time to try non-medical methods to stimulate labor if your doctor thinks labor is not progressing.