Mission

Experience birth healing through healing birth.

Our mission at VBAC Support International is to assist women in healing from traumatic birth experiences and preparing to have a healing birth; as well as, healing the culture of birth in our society.

Vision

Birth Healing

We envision a world where birth is no longer a potentially traumatic experience for mothers.

Healing Birth

We envision a world were birth is culturally considered a sacred, honored, and respected natural occurring event.

We envision a world where:

• Birth is completely trusted.
• There is complete faith in:
  • Mother.
  • The Mother’s Body.
  • Baby.
  • The Birth Process.
  • Birth is allowed to unfold, unhindered, as it is meant to.
  • Intervention(s) are preserved for the situations that truly need it.
  • Birth has no restrictions or limitations put on it.
  • Birth is honored and celebrated.
  • Birth is considered a sacred journey for mother, father, and the family.
  • Birth is empowering for the birthing mother.
  • Women are given the support, information, and resources they need to achieve their desired birth experience.
  • Childbirth education and informed decisions are the center of birth plans.
  • Birth plans and decisions are honored and respected by care providers,
    • Any deviation is by true informed consent.
    • Birth is without fear!
    • Motherhood is embrace with confidence, honor, and respect.

Goals

We strive to:

• Educate birth and postpartum professionals on the importance of emotional recovery from traumatic birth experiences.
• Educate birth professionals on the importance of emotional preparation for birth.
• Offer unique and elite training programs for birth and postpartum professionals.
• Provide professional support to all VSI members.
• Educate society on the truths about birth and dispelling the myths surrounding birth.
• Provide emotional preparation for birth to expectant women.
• Encourage childbirth education and preparation, and informed decision making to expectant women.
• Encourage and support women to have empowered birthing experiences.
• Supporting women’s choices for their desired birth experience.
• Provide emotional recovery from traumatic birth experiences to post-traumatic birth mothers.
• Encourage and support breastfeeding, attachment parenting, and other conscious parenting aspects.