Hazel Keedle is a lecturer of midwifery at Western Sydney University and a PhD candidate. Hazel has worked in midwifery group practices, an aboriginal medical service, a variety of hospital settings and as a privately practising midwife in both city and regional locations. Hazels passion for VBAC followed her own experience of having a VBAC with her daughter in 2008 and since then has published research on women’s experience of having a homebirth after caesarean and on her PhD work exploring women’s experiences of planning a VBAC in Australia.