EP44 - Taylor's VBAC (breech, private ob, elective caesarean, covid times, recurrent losses, ectopic pregnancy, MGP, PROM, induction, distress, ventouse birth, cord avulsion, retained placenta, PPH)

Australian VBAC Stories · May 11, 2026 · 1h 6m

In this week’s episode, Taylor shares her journey from a breech caesarean to a VBAC that, on paper, had almost everything people fear: induction, fetal distress, instrumental birth, retained placenta, postpartum haemorrhage...

And yet, her story is not one of fear or trauma.

Taylor speaks about what it felt like to be informed, make decisions in real time, and hold her ground when it mattered. But also when to shift when it felt necessary.

There’s a thread running through this conversation that so many women need to hear:

It wasn’t the absence of intervention that made this birth feel…