title: Kayla's Story Is Our Story.
abstract: As a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, I find myself reading a lot of posts on various birth-related Facebook groups. It's important for me to know the issues women are talking about, asking about, and concerned about. Late last year, I found myself drawn to the real-time labor of a woman in New Mexico who was desperately trying for a successful vaginal birth after cesarean. She was using the virtual Facebook group as her literal emotional support, and the reaction was unlike anything I have ever seen online before. Literally hundreds of women around the world were following her story and rallying behind her-a woman they had never met. This is Kayla's story, and it is our story.
authors.forename: Tanya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Strusberg
keywords: Facebook; VBAC; cesarean surgery; doulas; medicalized birth; vaginal birth after cesarean