So it begins...

So this is my first blog! It will deal with a subject that is very near and dear to me and hence my name...vbacmama. I started this vbac journey right after I had my first daughter by cesarean and I haven't looked back. But it was in the last year that I experienced the most growth. Both in my vbac journey and as a mom. I doubt there is an easy way to sum this up, but I can try...I started out with little trust in myself and even less trust in birth. I doubted my body knew how to work the way God created it to and I was certainly convinced that I needed "help" to get it to work. I was young and naive and didn't know to educate myself on the different possibilities of birth. What I knew was that women go to the doctor and they deliver their baby. I didn't know that there were other possibilities and that birth could be simple, beautiful, and didn't have to be melodramatic. It didn't have to be what I saw on T.V.--shows I watched all the time like Baby Story, or movies that had birth scenes...It didn't have to be like that. It could be better. I didn't have to be scarey or dramatic. It could be peaceful and simple. But I didn't know these things then...and so I will take you back with me to a time when I just didn't know better.