There has been a lot of discussion on my local ICAN message board on various local hospital VBAC rates. My doula just posted this explanation today and I thought it was so well worded that I'd share it here.
This figure (a hospital's VBAC percentage - in this case it was about 2%) just includes ALL women who had a previous cesarean and then delivered again- which ones were VBAC and which were not. The percentage is how many of them had a vaginal delivery versus another cesarean. The statistic does not indicate whether or not they tried a vaginal delivery or not- only that there was no "risk factor" to exclude them from the statistic, and that they had a previous cesarean and with their next baby, did they then VBAC or RCS.
Re: My doula on VBAC hospital rates