I'd prefer to have a repeat cesarean, but I feel silly about requesting the surgery when there is no medical reason for it. She has assisted at over 1,000 births and is currently teaching in the nurse-midwifery program at the University of Minnesota. It is very normal for you to have major fears and apprehensions. When you gave birth previously, the control was taken entirely out of your hands. Now it has been returned to you and you are faced with some very big decisions.
Vaginal delivery is safer for the baby and for the mother.
Uterine rupture is a very uncommon event. In one major study of 8000 women, this complication occurred in 1.5 percent of VBAC births compared to 0.5 percent for vaginal delivery. About two-thirds of all women who plan a VBAC can expect to give birth vaginally. Most are very happy that they did. I would encourage you to express your fears to your obstetrician.