My VBAC birth story

My son was born two weeks early via c-section due to concerns about his size. So when I discovered I was pregnant the second time around my best friend was getting ready for her VBAC and mentioned I should look into it. I had recently moved and needed to find a new doctor anyways. I was lucky that I easily got into a pro-VBAC doctor. I wish I could say my pregnancy had been that easy lol. First three months I actually had to go vegetarian because just the thought of meat or slight glimpse made my stomach turn. Although over all except for pain and discomfort that apparently is a given for many second pregnancies. My water broke first as a trickle but steadily increasing as my contractions began to pick up on February 8th. Three hours passed and by this point I had gone through four pair's of shorts and we decided to call my doctor and go to the hospital. I was sure that something was going and I was dilating. But sadly when I was checked into triage they discovered I hadn't even started to dilate but I was almost fully effaced. They also confirmed that my water had in fact broken. That was at 11am Feb 8th. I was moved to L&D where they checked me a few hours latter with very little chaneg I agreed to start pitocin. Around that time I also requested an epidural. Around 8 pm I finally started to show real progress and had dialated 4 cm. By 2:30 my nurse checked me again and said I was fully dilated and in the next 30 minutes I would begin pushing. Due to having to increase the epidural I was unable to feel any of my contractions. But this was also tricky because my contractions never became evenly spaced out even this far into delivery. delivery. After pushing for 30 minutes my baby girl was born at 3:30 am. A healthy 8 lbs 9 is. I wasn't done yet as I needed to be stitched up. However I got to blissfully hold my baby on my chest. My nurse later told me that she had written me off as going to need another c- section because my contractions never became evenly spaced. She said your body knew what it was doing even though it wasn't "normal". I'm glad she didn't try to persuade me into a c- section and I'm glad I had my families & doctors support.