Quick, intense, powerful, empowering – just a few words to describe my vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) home birth.

I was labelled ‘high risk’ as my twin girls had been born by caesarean three years before. The chance of my uterus rupturing in labour was 1 in 200, so I was advised to give birth on a labour ward with continuous foetal monitoring and close to an operating theatre. I initially planned to follow the hospital protocol and planned to birth on the labour ward where I worked as a midwife, to be cared for by my colleagues.